Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the finance minister's speech.
Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
The finance minister, six months ago, put forward a budget and in it, obviously, the Liberals broke their promise of $10-billion-a-year deficits. Now we see that they have added an extra $31.8 billion over the next five years, without any credible indication of returning to balance.
During our pre-budget consultations across the country, the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal said that this was a credibility test for the minister.
What does the minister have to say to those Canadians out there who are looking for confidence, when he can show no confidence in his own ability to close that gap?