Madam Speaker, the member across the way spoke about the record of the Harper government. The Harper government led Canada through the great global recession. Canada had the best job growth, the best GDP growth and the lowest deficit in the G7. We ran surpluses in the years preceding the global downturn, whereas the government ran massive deficits in the years preceding the current situation. Now we have not only the largest deficit in Canadian history, but a deficit that exceeds half of the debt that was accumulated in the time up to that period.
We will take no lessons from the members across the way whatsoever. Canada had the best job growth during the global recession. Now we are struggling for jobs and struggling to provide opportunities, and the government thinks that more borrowing is the way out of it. It is not. We need a strategy to grow our economy that gets people back to work.