Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
A Globe and Mail report today shows how the minister overstated the Tory deficit for 1993-94 and understated his deficit for 1994-95. This creates the illusion that the deficit is shrinking but in fact the real deficit is growing.
This seems to be a blind spot for successive finance ministers, both federal and provincial, who tend to blame their current deficit problems on a previous government. Canadians are growing tired of that.
Will the minister explain why he has misrepresented the facts again about the size of the deficit to the Canadian people?