We have laughter from our Liberal colleagues. This is a serious issue when you're spending money out of control.
The mandate that the minister received was to “Work with the Minister of Finance and your colleagues to conduct a review of tax expenditures and other spending to reduce poorly targeted and ineffective measures, wasteful spending, and government initiatives that are ineffective or have outlived their purpose.” In other words, don't waste money, yet we have a government that still believes budgets will balance themselves, despite out of control spending.... Thank goodness for the Parliamentary Budget Officer who is—