Mr. Speaker, I think the differences are very clear.
We are faced now, it seems to me, with an increasingly clear alternative: a Conservative government that offers us and Canadians nothing but years of austerity, years of repentance for its own errors. Who got the country into this mess? We have seen this movie before.
The previous so-called Progressive Conservatives dropped us into a $42 billion deficit. The current government has dropped us into an even deeper hole of $56 billion. It has done so before the recession began, with imprudent spending that left us no reserve when the rains came, and the rains came. It did not expect nor predict the rains would come. It did not know the weather would change, then the rains came and it was not prepared.
We are now in a $56 billion hole. The investment did not even make us more productive, more competitive, it did not create employment, and we are where we are.
The other party does not have the responsibilities that we have. It does not have the experience of government that we have. It has never run a government at the federal level.
We have cleaned up the deficit left behind by the Mulroney failure. We will clean up the deficit left behind by the Harper failure.