Mr. Speaker, I would like to hear from the Prime Minister regardless of who is in the House.
Last week the Minister of Finance said on page 2042 of Hansard that the interest rate assumptions in the budget are interest rates which at the present time are higher than those in existence. That statement was completely false. We know for example that long term rates today are over a point above what they were predicted to be in the budget.
The Prime Minister today has professed a great interest in private sector job creation. Will he admit that these errors in arithmetic will mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of private sector jobs and private sector job creation funds?