Mr. Speaker, I am truly amazed that the member and the Minister of State for Science and Technology were able to carry on that discussion with a straight face because it was such a blatant act of historical revisionism.
The fact is that when the Liberals came into power in 1993, they were, in many ways faced with a similar situation that Mr. Obama is facing in the United States. Mr. Obama was faced with a Republican Party that left Americans with a huge, massive, monstrous debt. When the Liberals came to power in 1993, what did they have? They had a monstrous debt.
If we go back in history and look at the facts, because we like to follow the facts, it shows that Tory times are tough times. What does that mean? It means debt and it means deficit.
When we were defeated in 2006, we left the Conservatives with a $12 billion surplus. What did they do with that surplus? They burnt through it. They spend and reduce taxes, the same kind of voodoo economics that Mr. Bush did south of the border resulting in a catastrophic economic problem in that country.
I will give the member a chance to change his tune and say that the right thing to do is to follow the Liberal economic plan that was done in the 1990s and follow our economic plan that will get Canadians back to work and our economy will be strengthened, rather than the kind of voodoo economics that the Conservatives are pursuing.