Madam Chairman, I have always had a high regard for Yale University. I thought it might have had a course in accounting that the hon. member might have taken at some point.
Let me remind him of a few numbers. He talked about a $17 billion deficit that would balloon to $22 billion. Let us look at that deficit the way those at Yale would look at it when looking at the U.S. deficit. If we look at the deficit in the same way as the hon. member did at Yale, the deficit would be $6 billion. It would be $6 billion if we did it the same way the Americans do their numbers. That is the difference.
That is so very close to a balanced budget that even the hon. member should stand up and cheer when he sees that number. All he has to do is go back to Yale and ask how the fiscal deficit is calculated down there. If he asked that question he would get the answer. If we did it the same way as it is done in the U.S., it would be $6 billion and not an imaginary $22 billion. That is the remarkable result of this government's efforts at deficit reduction.
The question was so long I have forgotten what the rest of it was.