Mr. Speaker, last spring the finance minister had his wrists slapped by the auditor general when he cooked the books to the tune of about $800 million, contrary to the stated accounting policies of the Government of Canada. Now we hear he is at it again with the $3 billion memorial fund to the Prime Minister.
Will the finance minister assure Canadians he has learned his lesson and will not be loading the spending of future year into the upcoming 1998-99 budget?