You've said that the government must not implement spending cuts at this time.
Mr. Porter, you've said that caution is the watchword and that there shouldn't be a change now in terms of cutting government spending at this time.
Mr. Schetagne, you've said that now is the wrong time to cut.
Mr. Hodgson, you've said several times “don't put on the brakes” and have said “no fiscal contraction”.
Mr. Leitao, you've said the same thing.
Further, Sherry Cooper, your colleague and the chief economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns, has described it thusly: “the misplaced belief that the road to economic prosperity is paved by near-term fiscal tightening, as espoused by...Prime Minister Harper...shows that we've learned nothing from Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression”.
Is it safe to say that all of you believe that now is not the time to cut government spending in Canada?