Mr. Speaker, in this new year, I would first like to extend my best wishes to the people in my riding as well as to all parliamentarians present, especially my Bloc colleagues. I also wished the Prime Minister a happy new year, but he answered that I was very generous and that most were only giving him a month.
I am surprised by the speech of the member who just spoke. She stated that she visited her riding and noted that her constituents were most worried about the economic problems. I wonder where she was during the election campaign, when she and her party pretended that the economy was doing just fine. I also wonder where she was when consultations were held on the Conservative Party's first economic statement. Even then, they said there were no economic problems. Now, all of a sudden, they have discovered a multitude of problems.
Can she explain the contradiction between what was said during the election and what was said today?