Mr. Speaker, I really appreciate the question from my hon. colleague because the finance committee is in prebudget consultations right now.
Prebudget consultations means that we travel across the country and we hear from Canadians. We have had over 400 submissions. All of that will go together in preparing our next budget.
It is important to recognize that we have some challenging times ahead because of what is happening in Europe and the United States, but Canada has done exceptionally well.
The consultation process with Canadians on where we are going to go with next year's budget is happening now.
We are talking about something that happened over a year ago. We are talking about measures that Canadians want. These measures were debated across the country for many months.