Mr. Speaker, spending ideas are on the minds of ministers; spend the surplus on $700 lunches for bureaucrats.
The industry department is looking at how to hand grants to friends of the government. Environment wants to spend money on a way to harness the wind power of the Minister of Natural Resources.
However Canadians have other priorities. We have a $600 billion federal debt and we have the highest personal income taxes in the G-7.
Will the Department of Finance make debt retirement and tax relief its number one—