I can assure you that you can count on unanimity in that matter.
I'd like to return to a question raised earlier by Mr. Kramp. The International Monetary Fund will be issuing a performance report card for all players. We'll especially be able to see whether people have spent the 2%. The fund's look was what was read by Mr. Kramp. It's as though it was agreed that everyone would bring something to the family get-together, but that Canada was behaving like the brother-in-law who tries to eat off everyone's plates without bringing anything.
The example cited by Ms. Hall Findlay is appropriate. She showed that, when it comes to asset sales, this is pure fiction. When it comes to so-called spending cuts and reductions, there's a paradoxical attitude among the Conservatives, who boast of being good public administrators. And yet, long before the present crisis, in the two and a half years of their government, they have raised the government's program spending in a stunning manner, without achieving any results.
You cited the example of incredible unacknowledged expenditures for the war in Afghanistan, and there were a number of others. They spent endlessly, without results. Now that we need that money, we're told we'll have to sell assets and proceed with previously unheard of cuts.
In light of all we've seen to date, will Canada achieve the 2% target? He intends to say that he will instead suggest 4% at the outcoming London summit. In your view, can measures such as the sale of assets or a so-called reduction in the size of government stimulate the economy? Isn't it necessary instead to take more direct measures such as improving employment insurance?