Mr. Speaker, I can assure the member across the way that we are still trying to forget about those Harper days.
Conservatives stand up time and again on the budget, and what they like to talk about is the issue of deficits. When we look at Canada as a nation, with its history of 151 years, I believe that the Conservatives have been in government for just less than 40% of that time and the Liberals the other 60%. However, when we look at the total amount of debt that has been created, 75% has been as a result of Conservatives. If we look at Stephen Harper, he inherited a multi-billion dollar surplus. Even before the recession, he turned it into a billion-plus dollar deficit.
Why would this government want to take any advice from the Stephen Harper Conservatives, when they did so poorly on the issue of deficit management?