Mr. Speaker, the member talks about the size of our cabinet, so let us talk about some facts.
At the end of Jean Chrétien's time in government, he had 39 members in cabinet, as did Paul Martin, this with only 133 Liberal members of Parliament in the House. Statistically that was the largest cabinet in Canadian history. His cabinet was almost 30% of his caucus.
The member might also be interested to know that the cost of our cabinet today is still millions of dollars less than when the Liberals were last in office.