Mr. Speaker, every household in this country pays its Mastercard bill when it is due. It is as simple as that.
We have over half a trillion dollars of debt. Canadians are paying the highest income taxes in the industrialized world. They might expect a bit of debt and tax relief, which is what they have been promised for a long time. It is crazy.
Canadians did take the Prime Minister at his word that 50% of the surplus would go to debt and tax relief. That simply has not happened, not with what the finance department has been leaking anyway to the press lately.
Why does the cabinet always get first dibs on any spending? Whose money is this anyhow, Mr. Minister?