Madam Speaker, it is interesting in following this debate to hear the Liberals try to hide from how much the Prime Minister's failures are costing Canadians. People know, and the member for Winnipeg North in particular knows, that Canadians are paying for the government's mistakes.
I wonder if the hon. member can comment on an issue that he and I agree on. Perhaps there are not many, but I think we both agree that the government should not have spent $4.5 billion buying a pipeline. We think it should have built it without buying it. The member probably thinks differently about the building piece, but certainly the government has no plan to get it built.
The government has been asking our members where we think spending should not have been made and what areas we would cut. I say that the government should not be spending money by giving it to private business. It should not be giving money to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Would the member agree with me that these are areas where expenditure should not happen, and does he think that we could get to a balanced budget much more quickly if we were willing to take on some of these issues?