Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. I cannot ignore what he said, which is rather surprising coming from a Conservative member.
I would like to come back to the matter of deficits. In his speech, my colleague mentioned the late Mr. Flaherty. In 2007-08, Mr. Flaherty listened to the advice of economists, who said that significant government investments would stimulate the economy, and he did exactly that. At the time, the government was proud to say that it was making investments to stimulate the economy. It even called those investments its economic action plan.
Why then is my colleague today denying the validity of this economic theory when his own government used the same strategy in 2008?
How does he explain the fact that he is completely opposed to that theory today?