Mr. Speaker, shall I sit down, or shall I answer? Will the hon. member allow me to answer? If I am asked a question, I want to answer it.
What we saw was that we actually got rid of that deficit within three years and started to post 10 years of balanced budgets, with surpluses. We put in the largest amount of money ever put into health care, $41.2 billion. It was by Paul Martin, in 2004, for the 2004 health accord.
Money was being spent, innovation was moving, and jobs were being created. Canada was number one in 2000, according to The Economist. It was number one in the world in economic growth.