Mr. Speaker, if nothing changed but the price of a barrel of oil going from $104 to $40, there is $15 billion in the coffers gone right there.
The member has a lot more experience than I do, and I will fully admit I have a lot to learn, but what I learned by knocking on 22,000 doors was that the good folks of Dartmouth—Cole Harbour wanted change. They were tired of cuts to things like CBC, to social programs, and to our cities. They wanted to see an investment in their people, in their youth, in their country, and that is what they voted for in October.