Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that the member for Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, when he was first elected in 1993 as a Reform MP, would have remembered very clearly at the time how he would have been standing with the rest of our colleagues of that era reminding the Liberals of their promise to get rid of the GST, the entire 7% GST that they campaigned on getting rid of. Of course, they simply forgot to do that.
So talking about political revisionism, it is now very interesting to hear him adhering to the Liberal talking points and Liberal revisionism, because of course they created an ideology that actually they slew the deficit, which never was true. It was actually the policies implemented by Brian Mulroney and free trade, which brought in billions of dollars in cross-border trade. It was a huge benefit to Canada, in the view of even the unions, the labour leaders who were alarmed about it at the time, such as Ken Georgetti, who has admitted that free trade was a great asset to Canada. It brought in tremendous revenues, along with the GST with all its revenues, and that is what slew the deficit. But I thank the hon. member for the question.