Mr. Speaker, five out of ten provinces have balanced budget laws and all of those provinces have balanced budgets. Eighty-five per cent of Canadians in the same poll say they think the federal government is big enough today and should not get any bigger.
The Minister of Finance is preparing with his spendaholic colleagues to increase the size of government with new Ottawa style, big government programs.
Why is the minister ready to make government bigger in this budget when Canadians want it to become smaller?