Mr. Speaker, we have made it very clear that we are about to embark on the most comprehensive, deep consultative process in the budget preparation that has ever been done. There will be extensive opportunity for debate. We welcome that opportunity.
The challenge I lay before the leader of the Reform Party is to rise to that opportunity. Or, is the Reform Party going to do what it did in the pre-budget debate, what it has done throughout the summer, and that is refuse to be constructive, refuse to tell us what it would do and refuse to face the fundamental challenges facing the country?