Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague opposite for his question. With the deepest of respect, the money we are spending is the money provided to the government by our tax dollars and the tax dollars of our constituents who are sitting at home watching this debate. I get the same money as my hon. colleague opposite gets. There is no difference in the money. It is all coming out of the same pocket, and that is the pocket of Canadians.
He went on to mention the passing grade given to us by provincial finance minister André Bourbeau. I sat in the House for the previous five years. The marks the previous government got on budgets past were so dismal that to come all the way up from negative to a passing grade is a great achievement.
I might go on in the article the member mentioned. On February 23 the quote from Mr. Bourbeau was: "It contains interesting job creation measures". Then he brushed aside criticism from the Parti Quebecois that the budget was short on any new ideas on helping the jobless. That is a pretty good answer to the hon. member's question.