I say to members across the way that grants to businesses have been cut by 60 per cent. Of course they probably were not listening, they never do.
Here is another quote: "It is a good budget on several fronts". This was stated by Peter Wolford of the Retail Council of Canada. The Retail Council of Canada sure does not get any grants. Let us listen to another one.
Michel Audet, president of the Province of Quebec Chamber of Commerce said: "This is a real budget based on concrete measures". Now listen to this: an economist with Nesbitt Burns-since the members opposite want to hear from the financial sector-said: "This is a great budget and not just a smoke screen". That person added that this was a realistic budget.
This is what Lloyd Atkinson of MT Associates said: "This is one of the few budgets I have seen in a very long time where the promise was matched by the reality". That is us. We made commitments to the people of Canada in the red book and we are going to live up to those commitments. Whether those commitments are for gun control, for restoring the financial integrity of this country, or for good government and sound and frugal management, all of those things will be delivered because that is what we said we would do. In fact, that is what we are delivering to the people of Canada.