Mr. Speaker, the auditor general did not see transparency, he saw trickery in the budget.
The auditor general says he cannot trust the Prime Minister's budget because of accounting tricks that misrepresent the size of the surplus.
Yesterday the finance minister said he learned these tricks in the private sector. But suppose the management of a public company did not want to pay a dividend to its shareholders so it used accounting tricks to hide the surplus. Today that treasurer would be making licence plates in some penitentiary.
Why is the Prime Minister playing fast and loose with the financial statements of the government?