Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my honourable colleague on his election and inaugural speech.
This side of the House understands full well that there are economic challenges at present. There were economic challenges under the Conservative government, which repeatedly ran up deficits.
Getting back to my hon. colleague's speech, he asked whether we would be taking care of children. Yes, it is very important to take care of children. Is he not aware that we are going to increase the child benefit and lift 315,000 children out of poverty in Canada?
Would he put balancing the budget, something his government never did, before addressing child poverty?