Mr. Speaker, there are an awful lot of strange things in the government's bookkeeping. There are many, many things and this just happens to be one of them. The Liberals are going to say that they have done a wonderful thing. It is going to kick in before the election.
As I was saying before question period, they have $2.5 billion sitting in a bank account for the Canada scholarship fund. It is already paid for. The taxpayer has put up the cash and nothing is coming down until next year. There was $3.5 billion for the big announcement on health care. Again, it will not be available until next year. There was $800 million for the centre for innovation that was paid for a couple of years ago. The money is sitting in the bank and is not going to be disbursed until next year.
Here the Liberals are taking the money from the pension plan. Presumably they will apply it to the debt just before the election and will say “Boy, we are doing everything”. But when we look at the bookkeeping we find it is a front and that is not the way it is.