Madam Speaker, I have a question for the hon. member for Willowdale.
The hon. member talked about this government's commitment to balancing the budget and he talked about the target of its very weak goal of 3 per cent of GDP in three years.
The interesting thing about that is it is a moving target. It has been much more rapidly moving than economic growth. The government started out talking about $22 billion. Lately the talk has been of $25 billion. It is a rapidly moving target.
The hon. member talked about economic growth and how it has been much higher than what was forecast. The interesting thing is that although economic growth has been much higher than forecasts I have not seen an acceleration in the reduction of the deficit to correspond with this income which was not anticipated.
I would like to ask the hon. member why there has not been a reduction in the three year target to correspond with the unexpected increase in growth.