Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Finance.
Now that we know the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defence are completely out of touch with the real situation in Zaire, and the Minister of Finance has just announced that the agriculture industry is booming, although the price of grain is dropping, I would like to know if the Minister of Finance is aware that, under his government, Canadians are getting poorer.
I wonder whether it is because they only show him the bank statements, or maybe he only gets the news about the stock exchange or about our exports. Does he know that real incomes are going down and that the unemployment rate is the highest it has been since the depression in the 1930s? Is the Minister of Finance in touch-