Madam Speaker, with all due respect, I think my colleague is starting to have cognitive problems.
The Harper government is the best government Canada has ever had. That government managed to balance the budget, despite the global economic crisis of 2008. The country emerged stronger because we made better investments to get Canadians back to work. Those investments did not create inflation. Let us not forget that, under the Harper regime, interest rates gradually went down. Canadians could afford to buy a house, to pay rent, to live, to purchase inexpensive food and to buy a car at a reasonable price. There was hope in Canada. We set a benchmark for the rest of the world.
Right now, Canada is a negative example because people can no longer afford to live here. The Harper years were the good years. I call them the years of living high on the hog, because I am a farmer.