Mr. Speaker, I will have to let the one procedural matter go. I cannot let it go without commenting on it. The notion that there has ever been a proportionality in answering this question is utterly absurd. In fact often the opposition would simply ask, “What are your business plans for the week?” If I am to answer in a similar amount of words, I guess I would have to say, “Well, we will debate legislation”. That is not a terribly meaningful way of answering that, so I will simply dismiss that with all the attention and credit it requires.
The items I was discussing, to which he took objection, were actually the items that we will be discussing in the week ahead, which is what he asked me about, so I am telling him.
The one we did today, which was the ways and means motion, lays the groundwork for the budget bill that we will be debating. It is part of our balanced budget, and of course, we have seen from the opposition parties their intention to scrap all those very good policies. I know they do not want Canadians to know about that; hence his interruption. That is what we will be debating. That is what we will be delivering to Canadians.