Mr. Speaker, first of all I would like to tell my hon. colleague that this is the first time I hear the phrase "dynamic scoring". If I understand well, this is a little like skeet shooting, or shooting on the fly, at random, haphazardly. I think there is at least one conclusion that can be made in this House for the information of everybody here: a government cannot be run like a business. We often hear business people telling us that the government should be run like a business.
Unfortunately, that is not possible, strictly speaking. While a company can lay people off and get rid of a problem because it has too many employees, the government, acting on behalf of a nation, can never do that without getting stuck with the problem. In other words, the government will have the people laid off on its hands in one way or the other, whether through unemployment insurance or social welfare; and, in the absence of major social measures, there will be increased violence and more social problems, people will go without medication or have incredible problems.
Therefore, the government can never be totally run like a business, and I think dynamic scoring works even less for a government than for a business. Indeed I think budgets are made and cuts are made here and there-anyway it has been indicated in a document here-somewhat equally across the board, whereas we should have very specific cuts, as if made with a surgeons's blade.