Mr. Speaker, that is not the issue. The issue is that the Minister of Finance has taken $35 billion from the pockets of the less privileged and that his own efforts to reduce spending in his own department amount to about $2.4 billion. That is the real issue, and I am using his own figures. He should answer the question instead of trying to evade it.
My second question is this: How can the minister say that he has done his job properly when in fact he has confiscated $35 billion from the provinces, from the unemployed and from retirement funds, when he himself has only reduced spending by $2.4 billion?