Mr. Speaker, we will shortly have the opportunity to conduct an in-depth study of the government’s proposal and to show how the government is continuing to do poorly what it has been doing very poorly for a year, hurting the Canadian economy very badly in the process.
The minister talked about a figure that someone wanted to recall concerning the Canada child benefit. Perhaps we should remind him that he forgot to index it when it was presented and that he made a $3.4 billion mistake when he tabled it.
The next figure that I would like to hear the Minister of Finance quote is the one for future expenditures, the one he had not planned for. Nearly $32 billion more will be spent over the next five years. Six months ago, he had not thought about it. Today, he is thinking about it.
How will we be able to trust him?