Mr. Speaker, perhaps they will understand better if I explain it in French. We said we were going to spend half the surplus on social and economic programs and the other half on reducing taxes and the debt, over the course of our term of office.
Our term of office is four or five years. So we will do this over four or five years. During this period, they will continue to be in opposition and will have to admit that we are balancing our books, that we are not making empty promises and that we do what we said we would—