Mr. Speaker, I listened very carefully to the comments of my colleague. I have heard the same comment day after day from the Reform Party that the Liberals are really very unrealistic about what is happening.
Why did John Bulloch, president of the Canadian Federation of Business, state that our budget was very believable, very credible? Why did John Fund, who wrote a highly critical editorial about Canada's $540 billion debt, congratulate the government for being on the right course?
Could the member please inform me why the powerful Canadian Manufacturers' Association called our budget the first very serious attempt at balancing this country's books? Why is it that yesterday the chartered accountants association in this country congratulated the Liberals and said that we scored four out of five on their questions? We were at the top of the list in the way we responded to the debt and the deficit in this country.
The Canadian bond raters raised Canada's status. Each financial group, each authority on business in this country has come forward one after another. It is not the Liberals. They are not people who have been friends to the Liberals. They are representing very specific business and financial interests in this country. They applaud the steps taken by the minister.