Mr. Speaker, I have no idea how the member would construe my comment that I do not believe she could balance her chequebook as being a sexist comment. I can tell her that my 78-year-old mother has been balancing her chequebook for a long time. In fact I believe my 78-year-old mother to be extremely economically competent.
The fact that I do not believe the hon. member to be economically competent has nothing to do with her gender. It simply has to do with her capacity. I would urge her to reconsider her assertion that somehow that has something to do with her gender, because in fact I know a lot of very economically competent women who have great capacity. In fact many of them are in the Liberal caucus.