Mr. Speaker, if the finance minister wants to debate, he has to face unpleasant facts.
The unpleasant facts are the Liberals have cut transfer payments by 40 per cent. They have cut health care payments by $3 billion. They have cut benefits to seniors. They are dismantling social programs to pay the interest on the ballooning $600 billion federal debt. The finance minister has gone through all of this without being able to translate it into benefits of lower taxes and more jobs for Canadians.
My question again is: Why has the finance minister failed to give Canadians lower taxes and more and better jobs?