Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that our colleague would speak to us about the budget. If so many people find the budget so good and so perfect, then why does it talk about 0.7% of GDP when the IMF is telling us to invest 2% of GDP?
It so happens that 2% of GDP is a lot more than 0.7% of GDP. This 0.7% of GDP represents $20 billion when it should have been $40 billion. The government needs to double the amount already invested. If it wants to have a budget that it is in line with what the IMF has asked us to do, it will have to invest another 1.4%, which means it has to double the amount already invested.
The Americans have already invested 2.7% and we are just the poor cousins with 0.7%. The government says it has done a good job and presented a perfect budget, but it is missing 1.4% and twice the amount of money.
Can my colleague tell me when the government will invest the other 1.4% that the IMF is asking our country to invest?