Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Hillsborough. In a sense this is a strange motion to have less than a week before the budget because members opposite should understand there is such a thing as budget secrecy. There is no way we on this side the House can tell them what is in the budget or respond to their proposals in a concrete fashion.
Over the last several weeks we have been hearing the views of Canadians across the country through the finance committee, the report of which has just been published. If there is something sensible and novel coming out of the opposition today it is perhaps not too late to include it in the budget.