Mr. Speaker, only a Liberal would give a person a dollar one day, pay the person a dollar the next day and say he got an increase. The reality is those transfer payments were not an increase.
In the news reports today the Minister of Veterans Affairs, Newfoundland's cabinet minister, has announced that the after-TAGS money will come from the $3 billion contingency fund. Will the Minister of Finance confirm that this is the case and if it is the case, what is he also going to do for the west coast fishery?