I certainly will, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the hard-working member for York Centre for the question.
Canada's leading economists have lauded economic action plan 2012. Patricia Croft, the economist, said, “[Budget 2012’s] initiatives in the job front and addressing the demographic challenge.... In both regards I’d have to give the budget probably an ‘A’.... In a global context, I think Canada is in a fabulous position”.
Avery Shenfeld, chief economist, CIBC, said budget 2012 “...makes sense in a world economy that is still not what we would like it to be.... Relative to what anybody else is doing, we still”—