Mr. Speaker, if the minister had just read a little further, he would have read that this is not because of anything the government has been doing, except causing our economy to slow down and underperform. That is why the bank has taken this step.
A guardrail is something we are supposed to stay far away from. If we even brush up against it, that is a sign we are way off track. If we smash through it, we go flying off a cliff. Now, even Liberal MPs are terrified and are ringing the bell, trying to get off before they smash through the guardrail. One of them said, “I think that if we state that we have a $40-billion guardrail, we [better] stay within those numbers”, and another is begging for a fiscally responsible framework.
Will the Prime Minister allow a free vote, or will he force his Liberal MPs to stay on that bus as it goes—