Mr. Speaker, the Treasury Board president is a banker, so I am going to ask him about cost-benefit analysis.
This year's $25 billion deficit was supposed to buy all kinds of jobs for Canadians; instead, we got 6,000 fewer full-time jobs. The government's answer to the problem was to borrow even more.
If we spent $25 billion to buy a lot of nothing, would we buy even more of it?