Mr. Speaker, we have been very consistent. We have said that we are going to operate on the basis of rolling two-year targets and that is what we are going to continue to do.
The hon. member talks about last year's budget target being an easy target. If that was true, then the allegation also would be true. It was a very difficult target to hit. In three years we will have taken the deficit from 6 per cent of GDP down to 3 per cent.
As far as proof that it was a very difficult target I would only cite the leader of the Reform Party and the hon. member who last year stood up and said that we would never hit that target, that the sky was falling and we had to have countless mini-budgets. We did not have mini-budgets. We beat the target that member said we could never hit.