Mr. Speaker, while the finance department spent the weekend leaking like a colander, there was one issue that the government really did not raise. There was one budget issue it did not want to talk about, our massive $600 billion debt. It is kind of like the crazy aunt the government has hidden up in the attic somewhere. It is trying to keep it a little bit of a secret.
The fact is the average Canadian family pays $6,000 in taxes a year just to pay the interest on the debt.
Given that shameful fact, why is the debt not the government's number one priority in tomorrow's budget?