Mr. Speaker, the minister still cannot give the numbers.
Conservatives allege wrongly that unless their financial estimates are approved on Friday, the stimulus package will grind to a halt, but that is not true.
The budget was approved in February. The budget implementation bill was passed in March. So were the supplementary estimates and the interim supply bill. The government even gave itself extraordinary power to allocate money in April, May and June for spending through the rest of the year. Therefore, it has the money.
However, look at the record. The Conservatives left billions of approved dollars idle that last year. Why can they not admit those facts?