Mr. Speaker, yesterday in this House the Minister of Finance confirmed his desire to continue to dip illegally into the employment insurance fund and admitted that he had deliberately underestimated the size of the budget surplus.
He said, and I quote:
—our projections would not be of our optimum performance, but of our minimum.
Why does the minister assess his surpluses at a minimum, while dipping into the employment insurance fund to a scandalous and immoral maximum?