Mr. Speaker, surely there ought to be some connection between the preamble to the question and the question itself.
The hon. member knows that the government's objectives are to eliminate the deficit. It has pursued a very clear track of deficit elimination. It has bettered its targets every time, which is the first time in a long while that that has happened in this country's history.
It is focused on the preservation of social programs and on job creation.
The government is not going to throw the fabric of the country away because of any narrow fiscal ideology as expressed by the members opposite.