If you're having difficulty understanding what funding you're going to have over the next five years, and we, as parliamentarians, are trying to assess the estimates, and based upon difficulties parliamentarians have had the last few years in determining what government spending is going to be, even what it has been sometimes, you'll understand how difficult it is when I can't get a clear answer and you aren't able to give me one to that kind of question.
On April 18th, 2013. See this statement in context.