Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk in terms of marbles to the hon. member. I could say he has lost some but he has not. He is talking some of the talk but that is really all it is. I want to ask him a question about the infrastructure program.
The government is faced with a $40 billion deficit. One of the answers to resolve this situation is to create an infrastructure program. The infrastructure program uses $2 billion tax dollars from the municipal level, which the municipality gets by taxing people on their residences and so on. Then the infrastructure program uses another $2 billion from the provincial government which it gets from the same taxpayer. Then the federal government throws in $2 billion to make $6 billion. It all comes from the same taxpayer.
I would like the hon. member to explain the logic of another $6 billion out of the taxpayers' pocket as a positive influence in trying to balance a budget of $40 billion deficit a year.