Mr. Speaker, not only would I hope the hon. member would take into consideration what you have just said, but also on the way he characterized the Minister of Finance I hope when he gets the opportunity to stand up he will correct what he said and retract that comment.
Toward the latter part of his comments I am assuming the hon. member talked about how he would build budgets. There has been some success on this side of the House in building budgets, with two year rolling targets, a contingency reserve, and prudence in the budgets ensuring that we stay with balanced budgets. We took that $42 billion down to a $3.5 billion surplus.
The hon. member obviously does not agree with the way balanced budgets are being built in this country, so I would offer him up the opportunity. How would he build the mechanics of the budget? He sits on the finance committee, he has heard from Canadians. He talks about rolling out the five year plans. The last time this country got itself involved in rolling out five year plans was when the Conservative Party was in government and we ended up with a $42 billion deficit.
How does the NDP build budgets? It obviously does not agree with the success we have had. Let us give it a chance to express how it would build budgets.