Mr. Speaker, when we took office in 1993 one of the things we found was the reason that the deficit came out higher than it should have was that there were obligations that had not been reported by the government at that stage. We decided under those circumstances that we would be open and transparent as no other government has been. That is why we have done this and we will continue with that procedure.
In the House of Commons on November 17th, 1998. See this statement in context.