Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I had a text all prepared here with a wonderful Member's statement, but I think I'd just like to off-the-cuff, briefly comment on the situation as outlined in the budget today by our Finance Minister.
I guess Mr. Ramsay has referred to the pace at which we spent money in the previous Assembly and to some extent I agree with that. Our current Finance Minister, who was not the Finance Minister in the last government, used to stand up in this House on a very regular basis and talk about the debt wall. Sometimes when we were in committee meetings and planning how we were going to spend our money, I used to get a mental picture of all the Regular Members in a vehicle -- it was a convertible -- and on the door was written "crash test dummies" and we were heading very fast towards that wall that Mr. Roland used to refer to on a regular basis. In the driver's seat was our Finance Minister at the time, but he had a blindfold on. Now, what I feel today about the speech from our new Finance Minister is that we're all still in that car, all of us, our arms flailing. It still says "crash test dummies" and we have the debt wall ahead, but I feel like the Finance Minister has taken the blindfold off today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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