Mr. Speaker, since the beginning of this Parliament the Minister of Finance has used Canada's fiscal crisis as a club to suppress caucus and cabinet pressures for more spending, but now the dam has burst. The Minister of Canadian Heritage has increased spending by $160 million.
My question is for the Prime Minister: How many more such spending increases are in the works? Has the Liberal government returned to its old ways of buying the next election regardless of the size of the deficit and debt?