Mr. Speaker, I am sure he is just doing so inadvertently, but according to the Bank of Canada the Canadian dollar has dropped by 20% against a basket of six major currencies including the pound, the yen and the Swedish krona. We are losing money against the Mexican peso.
The finance minister said last year that the dollar was a reflection of our level of productivity. The Deputy Prime Minister said three years ago that Canada's productivity was lagging very seriously.
Does the Minister of Finance have any plans to improve our productivity concretely by paying down taxes and debt, or will he simply continue to blame--