Mr. Speaker, last year, after a long time, probably more than 20 years, the government started to pay off some of the market debt. We will have a budget in which the Minister of Finance will say exactly where we are at this moment.
We made a commitment to the Canadian people during the election with regard to the surplus. We are all happy that will be the situation in Canada very soon. The Minister of Finance confirms what we said, that half of the surplus will go toward debt reduction and tax reduction and the other half will go toward solving some of the economic and social problems of the nation.