Mr. Speaker, there is some truth to what the member has just said. The only thing he is really missing is that he was very critical of the Liberals during the 1990s. We also need to recognize that it was Paul Martin, the former Liberal prime minister, who actually put in the health care accord. That is the reason we are getting record highs in terms of health care transfers. It is not because of the current Conservative government.
When the member talked about the budgets and the balancing and the options, what he did not tell viewers or the House was that when the current government took office, it had a surplus budget into the billions of dollars. The government, even in a time in which there was no recession, converted that surplus into a major deficit of billions of dollars. Since then, the government has not had a balanced budget.
My question for the member is this. Will he confirm that if a balanced budget in 2015 materializes, the current government will be the first Conservative government to do that?