Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, who also comes from Winnipeg and serves Winnipeg North, for his comments.
I beg to differ with him. What was wrong with the approach to deficit reduction taken by past Liberal governments, whether of Mr. Chrétien or Mr. Martin, was that it reduced the deficit on the backs of education and health care. The former Liberal government reduced the deficit on the backs of transfer payments to our partner provinces.
This government, the Harper government--