Mr. Speaker, I would remind the captain of the Titanic it is a short step from being on top of the mountain to being over the hill.
Let me turn to the fiscal administration of the government. The Prime Minister has been strangely silent on the fact that Canadian exports fell in April for the third month, that wholesale trade has dropped sharply, that employment levels have been flat since November, that retail sales are stagnant and that housing starts are at their lowest point since 1982. It is quite apparent there was a gross deficiency in the fiscal planning of the government and that the finance minister did not go far enough fast enough in his budget. The chickens are coming home to roost.
My supplementary question is: Will the Prime Minister now direct the finance minister to present this House with a midcourse correction and have it ready when we reconvene this fall?