Mr. Speaker, we waited 652 days for that. There is no doubt that this was a budget, as the Prime Minister's Office said, written by the Prime Minister and not the finance minister. Last week his communications director said:
This budget will be written by one person. It happens to be the Prime Minister of Canada, not the Minister of Finance.
The director went on to say that the Prime Minister was not happy about the way this budget was being put together.
That is absolutely clear by the way this budget fails to hit the mark in terms of the two expectations that Canadians had: the expectation that this budget would address the need for national security and economic security.