Mr. Speaker, if one looks at the trend of interest rates since the last budget, one would see those interest rates have come down and will understand the very clear linkage between deficit reduction, lowering interest rates and job creation. That is more than likely one reason that over the course of the last year and half there have been over 500,000 new jobs created in Canada.
The President of the Treasury Board told me that the proof the infrastucture program has been such a great success is that the member for Simcoe Centre keeps writing to him for more money.