Mr. Speaker, I will begin by saying that I will be sharing my time with the member for Joliette.
First, this is an unusual situation. Personally, I have 10 years of experience and I have never seen anything like this in Parliament. It is total chaos.
I will come back to the economic update, the story of a horror or a horror story. We have been asking for an economic update for a long time. It is tradition. The government has to face the public and provide an update on its economic record. We have been talking about this document since November. We were insistent. We kept asking when they were going to present it. They did not know. They were not sure.
Finally, someone on that team had the bright idea to do this the day before the end of the session. Taken aback, the others said, “Why not? We have not reached the height of absurdity yet, so let's go”. That is how it was decided to wait until the last minute to present the economic update.
Now things have gotten really crazy. The finance minister and deputy prime minister has resigned. She felt the economic statement was ludicrous and decided not to table it. She got upset and left. She continues to speak out against the Prime Minister, which is very noble, I must admit. Who knows whether there will be an economic update; there is no finance minister.
Then, we eventually found out that there is a new Minister of Finance, someone who has all sorts of roles and who, it seems, always manages to settle matters, one way or another. He is like a firefighter—