Mr. Speaker, as usual Bloc members are totally out of context. This is the same interview in which I said that the Bloc critic should join the private sector if his forecasts were truly so fantastic.
What I said in this interview—he missed the important point—was: “It could have been said two or three years ago that Mr. Martin would do that—For the past two or three years economists have been making forecasts and they have no political agenda.”
At least, for two or three years, the surpluses could not have been deliberately inflated because they were forecasted by private sector economists.