Yes indeed.
When one looks at the Minister of Finance's five budgets, one realizes that he has never been able to forecast good sources of revenue, to know whether there would be a deficit or surplus, to anticipate anything that actually happened. He has always managed to play with the figures, take a little from here, cover up a little there, so that only he knows exactly where he is headed.
He is headed toward a budget that will enable him, on the eve of the next election, when he might expect to be the big boss of the Liberal Party of Canada, to—