Mr. Speaker, the late Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis often said “Instruction is like alcohol, not everyone can handle it”.
For the party currently in power, the surpluses are a little like alcohol, they are having a hard time handling them.
I saw earlier the member for the City of Ottawa have a fit of a sort in the House. I would ask my colleague who represents a riding in Nova Scotia to explain what his electors said when the member and his minister announced they were prepared to give $100,000 to the Senators, millionaires who earn $1.2 million a year on average, whereas the ordinary folks have to struggle to bring in $30,000 or $40,000.