Mr. Speaker, the hon. member knows that the Minister of Finance will not comment on the value of currency.
However, if one wants to talk about the fundamentals of the Canadian economy, we have the strongest growth we have had in decades, in fact the strongest growth of any of the G-7 countries. Over the course of the last four years the country has created over 1,200,000 jobs. At the present time our unemployment rate is down to 8.4% from 11.5%. Our inflation is low. Our productivity is up. The country is leading the G-7. Those are our fundamentals.