Mr. Speaker, since I will be taking the floor soon, I will come back to some aspects of the speech we just heard.
That said, I would like to have the member who just spoke explain something to me. When the Conservatives took office, Canada had a surplus of $26 billion. However, as of today, they have managed to transform this surplus into a deficit, which is now $62 billion. When they came to power we had a trade surplus, and now we have a trade deficit.
How does the member explain this?