Mr. Speaker, perhaps the minister missed the English translation. What I said was that the minister made precisely that statement about his February budget and he was wrong just as every finance minister with weak intermediate targets-Marc Lalonde, Michael Wilson, Don Mazankowski-have been wrong in the last 10 years on this very subject.
When will the Minister of Finance admit that a two stage approach to this problem will not work? Will he admit that it is not possible to jump over a wide chasm in two short leaps?