Mr. Speaker, it will come as no great surprise to you that I will be voting against the motion of the members opposite.
The issue here is the setting of realistic deficit targets, realistic debt targets and then going on to set employment targets. When one has revenue coming in one knows what the revenues are. When one knows one's expenses one knows how to set realistic targets. That in my view is the central thesis of the fatal flaw of the NDP's position, namely that to set an unemployment target is simply an exercise in futility and something with which the government cannot possibly cope.
I ask the members opposite how, without entering into massive deficit spending, increasing debt and entering into programs that are utterly useless, will they be able to set realistic targets and achieve that.