Mr. Speaker, I suggest that the hon. member look at the budget a little more carefully.
The interest rate assumptions in the budget for long term rates are, as he states, a little bit low but short term rates are where the changes take place. Long term bond rate changes affect maybe a seventh of the total over any year.
I would say that our budget is dead on in that. With the interest rate assumptions that we have made in the budget and if the interest rates continue where they are right now, we will come in at a lower cost of interest than we had in our budget.