Mr. Speaker, one economist after another is saying that the government's budget numbers simply do not add up. For instance, we have the former assistant deputy minister to the finance minister on record as saying that the government just never added those numbers together, so we are in the whole by $1.5 billion. This confirms what others are saying.
Now that the evidence is mounting, will the finance minister admit that we are headed to a planning deficit by at least the year 2004?