Mr. Speaker, in case the Minister of Finance is enjoying this question period, I have a question for him.
There are hundreds of capable public servants in his department who are able to write budget speeches. Yet the minister paid $104,000 of taxpayers money to three outside consultants to polish a 29 page speech. That is at a cost of $3,500 a page. Let us hope the minister does not catch a case of verbal diarrhea; he would bankrupt the country.
I know the minister is obsessed with his image, but can he tell us why he paid so much money to three Liberal hacks?