Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the deficits and how Conservatives left this great surplus, as the member alluded to in his speech.
Stephen Harper had three surpluses. The first one was a $13-billion surplus. We ask ourselves how he ended up with such a large surplus. It is because Paul Martin left him with that $13-billion surplus a year before. The second year that Harper was in the House, he ran a $9-billion surplus. After that, it was deficit after deficit after deficit.
Finally, when it got to 2015, he referenced how a surplus was left. How did they leave that surplus?
They left it on the backs of veterans and by depleting our military investment to under 1% of GDP for the first time in recorded Canadian history.
Could the member please explain how this great surplus in 2015—