Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is complaining because we did not do his party's $10 billion stimulus when in fact the stimulus we provided was on the order of $26 billion. The point is that because of actions taken a year ago we have $17 billion in tax cuts in this year alone. That is the biggest tax cut this year of any G-7 country. We have an extra $3 billion in health care and we have a number of other items, adding up to $26 billion, which is much more relative to the size of our economy than the Americans are proposing and the Americans have not yet implemented those proposals.
My point is that contrary to what the hon. member said we have in fact had a very large fiscal stimulus, to the point where we are proposing not to pay back any debt this year and possibly next year. If we wanted to go any further we would clearly have to go into deficit, because any further than not paying back any debt is a deficit.
The question I am asking is this: the hon. member must be proposing a return to deficit. Otherwise I do not see how his numbers add up.