Mr. Speaker, in 2003 the finance minister was a senior member of the Mike Harris government and it ran on a balanced budget. Whoops, it turned out to be a big deficit.
Last November, he projected never ending surpluses. Whoops again, two months later it was an $80 billion deficit, which the IMF says is now $120 billion. That is enough to wipe out all the debt reduction since Liberals balanced the budget in 1997.
Why is the minister so bad with numbers?