Madam Speaker, I have been listening to the Liberal speeches today with a lot of interest. Obviously Liberal members have bought into the plan, and I understand that. That is part of their party plan. The budget has been presented. Many Liberal members I am sure sincerely support everything in the budget. I suppose all of them will vote for it. We expect that.
Would the member be so bold as to be really candid with us and say something about the lack of planning to actually reduce the debt? The debt is standing at $576.8 billion. The government has said it will pay $3 billion a year against the debt out of its contingency fund if at the end of the year it has found no other way to spend it. In the event that the government actually does not spend it, that means it will take almost 200 years to pay off the debt. Meanwhile we are paying $40 billion a year in interest.
Would the member, in her great candid spirit, tell us what she thinks and what members of her constituency think with respect to actual debt repayment and reduction of the interest thereby?