Madam Speaker, I too have a question for the NDP finance critic. He is a man of considerable insight in a lot of things.
How do I put this without insulting him after what I just said? Does he really understand what the measure of currency is versus the wealth of the country? I can buy a piece of equipment and pay $1 Canadian for it or I can buy the same thing for 65 cents American. It is the same item and has the same value, it is just in a different measure. We have different ways of measuring things. We used to measure things in inches and now we measure in centimetres.
To what degree is his understanding that all we are talking about here is the debate on which measure of our economic health we are going to use?