Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary must take Canadians for fools, when this debate is about how much money the government is spending, when it is going to tell us, how we are going to be able to know what it is spending and what the effects of it are. The Parliamentary Budget Officer stated:
Despite PBO requests, the government has not provided clear baseline information used for any of the expenditure reduction initiatives in a manner that would allow Parliament to assess impacts on government programs and services.
That is the problem. We here in Parliament cannot do our job because the government will not give us the information.