Mr. Speaker, I have the red book here. To make sure it is well understood, on page 28 it says: “We will allocate our budget surpluses so that over the course of our mandate one half will be spent to improve our programs and one half will go to tax cuts and reduction of the debt”.
There is not a big difference between that and what the Minister of Finance said. He said that the 50:50 formula will be applied over the course of the mandate. It is exactly the same thing.
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