Mr. Speaker, that member is very upset, because that was back in the era where he helped defeat his government by bungling his way into an RCMP investigation of the income trusts.
In the first two years before the global economic crisis, the Conservative government paid off $40 billion of debt, which buffered us against the trouble which was ahead. We came out of the global recession before everyone else, and created a million jobs.
Why are the Liberals piling up so much debt now—