Mr. Speaker, it is hard for the public to understand the Minister of Finance when he speaks. His own department's figures indicate a $13 billion surplus for the first six months of the year.
Yesterday, the minister maintained that his surplus, before implementing any budget initiative, would drop to $7 billion by the end of the year.
Can the minister explain to the public how the federal government will lose $1 billion per month in the last six months of the current fiscal year? Because this is what the Minister of Finance is saying when he anticipates such a small surplus at the end of the year.