Mr. Speaker, I have listened to the Minister of Finance several times. He has met us in various meetings. I have listened to him here in the House.
We have gone to the people of Canada during an election where we put forward our electoral platform very clearly. We set in it exactly what we were going to do. We were going to reduce the deficit to 3 per cent of GDP within three years. We are on target to do this.
We set out the various programs that we wanted to keep, the programs we wanted to maintain as a social safety net, the programs we wanted to enhance, and we have set it out in very clear language with figures backing it up.
All the various financial houses were aware of what we were trying to do. The budget is going to come down within a week. We should all wait to see what it says, what it does, what thrust and direction it takes, whether it follows in the same path as the first budget, which it will do, and whether we are on the right target.
I am convinced that once the budget is down, once the facts are known, that all the various naysayers will agree that Canada is going in the right direction and following the right path, and that certainly we are keeping to our commitments in a very credible way.