Mr. Speaker, on the question of Canada using the U.S. dollar, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance have stated with extraordinary clarity that we are not going to do that. I do not know one person in the Liberal caucus who advocates it.
The member for Regina--Qu'Appelle seems to ignore that we have already instituted as of January 1 a fiscal stimulus larger than what the Americans are talking about. He ignored that in his speech.
The relevant minister announced deals forthcoming very soon with the provinces on affordable housing. We have an infrastructure program that is starting to pick up.
If the hon. member does not want the country to go back into deficit, I cannot understand how a permanent $10 billion infrastructure or job creation program would avoid that unless he is basing his projections on the extraplanetary surplus projections coming from the finance critic of the Bloc Quebecois.