Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Elmwood—Transcona for his excellent remarks on how we spend money in Canada in the main estimates process.
He might have read recently, via the CBC, the comments put forward by the University of Ottawa's Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy. Kevin Page, the former parliamentary budget officer, said that reading the government's 223-page economic update gave him something like a hangover. He went on to state, “It's impossible to read. I have done this for years and I can't even follow the money.”
I would like the NDP member to comment. How can we trust the government, when it is not being transparent with us about how much public money is being spent?