Mr. Speaker, while 7 out of 10 provinces expect a deficit for this fiscal year, the Minister of Finance is piling surplus upon surplus, and is even managing to conceal his surplus funds. He is pocketing taxpayers' dollars to meet needs that are not really there.
Is this not the best possible proof that there is indeed fiscal imbalance, or in other words that there are provincial governments without enough money to meet their responsibilities, while the federal government has to invent expenditures in order to justify its actions?