Mr. Speaker, certainly this boasting that the budget is a great success may impress backbenchers but it has obviously failed impressing those who finance Canada's $500 billion debt, namely taxpayers and investors.
For six weeks now the minister's promise of a strong medicine next year has been undermined by repeated statements by the Prime Minister that all cuts are already on the table.
In light of rising interest rates and the falling dollar, will the minister ask the Prime Minister to remove the handcuffs and
allow him to use the only available solution to the problem, deeper cuts in public spending and a revised fiscal plan?