Mr. Speaker, I think the real question is this. Why is the Prime Minister willing to sacrifice 340,000 jobs?
The finance minister was blindsided by his own Prime Minister. Here is what the finance minister said three weeks ago:
You can’t go on stripping away piece by piece by piece of the budget. You can’t, after the fact, begin to cherry pick...If you engage in that exercise, it is an absolute, sure formula for the creation of a deficit.
It sounds like the Prime Minister is willing to risk a deficit to save his own hide.
Having obviously lost the confidence of the Prime Minister, when will the finance minister resign?