Mr. Speaker, the accounting principles we followed in reporting the state of the government's finances have been consistent and are ones determined by the auditor general.
If the hon. member is accusing the auditor general of massaging the numbers, I would suspect he should do so in another forum. Even if one accepts the premise of the member's question, which is obviously false, one would have to ask him to apply the same principles from one year to the next and he would find that his question does not stand up.