Mr. Speaker, the fundamental rule of Parliament is that no money shall be spent without the consent of Parliament. It is right in the Constitution. Members might want to take a look.
It has been eight months since the year-end, and the Liberals still have not tabled the deficit number. The Liberals are two months late in tabling the public accounts. Bay Street, not Parliament, learned yesterday that the government has sold $3 billion of Air Canada shares. They are blocking Parliament from doing its work. They must have blown by their maximum $40 billion deficit promise massively.
They should come clean: What is the deficit number?