Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives pride themselves on being champions of fiscal restraint. I would like to remind my colleague that, under the Harper government in 2009, the deficit was $55 billion. Taking that data and adjusting it for today's inflation puts us pretty much in the same ball park.
The Conservatives are saying that the deficit in this budget is too big and that they would have limited it to $42 billion. What I see in this budget, which looks more like a Conservative budget, is record military spending, a massive tax cut and handouts to oil companies.
Do the Conservatives really oppose the deficit, or do they oppose it only because it is not their deficit?