Mr. Speaker, we did not make any of this up. The Liberal government kept saying throughout the entire election campaign and on page 12 of its platform that by the end of its term in 2019 we would return to a balanced budget.
The problem is that the Prime Minister seems to think that deficits magically disappear. That is not how things work in real life.
We keep asking the Prime Minister the same question: can he simply give us a date? When will we have—