Mr. Speaker, throne speeches are about talk. Budgets are all about action.
Since the last election the Prime Minister has introduced two throne speeches and only one budget. This is the first government in Canadian history to introduce twice as many throne speeches as budgets.
With a health care system in chaos, a military in crisis and financial markets in a tailspin, we need a fall budget to address these issues and to provide a detailed costing of yesterday's throne speech promises.
What is the real reason the government is delaying a budget until sometime next year?