Mr. Speaker, I would like first to apologize. I did not see that you were rising.
The hon. colleague said there was a surplus. Actually Canadians know about the $150 billion deficit that he left us.
We have a plan to grow the economy.
We started the process in December by lowering taxes for the middle class, which will benefit more than 9 million taxpayers. This is one of the measures. In the next federal budget we will also include the Canada child benefit, which will benefit nine out of ten families and will help bring hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.
Canadians asked us to invest in the middle class and grow the economy. That is exactly what we will do.