Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the member for Churchill on her election and welcome her to the House.
I have a brief comment on her speech as it reflected on the throne speech.
It seems to me that our economy is almost certainly heading for a more conspicuous downturn than anything we have seen in the past. In fact, the throne speech was very much, in my view, an attempt to govern by looking into a rear-view mirror.
The Minister of Finance will tell us everything the government did last year, or the year before, or the year before that. We are looking at a serious economic issue here and some very serious fiscal stimulus needs to be directed into the economy by the government. The throne speech failed utterly to address that. It is imminent, and we will be going into our Christmas break in a couple of weeks.
Would the member care to comment on what I regard as a serious failure in the government's throne speech?