Madam Speaker, I listened to the member's intervention. In particular, he focused a little bit on how, after running deficit after deficit after deficit for years, the former Conservative government finally brought in a “surplus”. I am wondering what he can tell us about what the Conservatives had to do to get that surplus. Can the member talk a little bit about the services that were slashed to veterans affairs or the selling off GM at bargain prices, for example?
More importantly, if this is the attitude that the Conservative Party is going to continue to take, which we have seen year after year in this place, can the member comment on where the further cuts of $18 billion, as promised by the Conservative Party in the last election, would have come from? Where would the Conservatives have gone to get an additional $18 billion in cuts? What services would they have cut to do that? Would they have continued down the path of cutting services to veterans?