Mr. Speaker, what happened is very serious and unprecedented in the history of Canada. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance resigned a few hours ahead of the economic update. A veritable cluster bomb has exploded all over the place. It is even being talked about in the United States and around the world, in a negative way for Canada.
That is the reality we are facing today. The former finance minister said that the deficit would not exceed the $40‑billion mark, but the Prime Minister gave her the boot to listen to his friend Mark Carney.
Can the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry tell us what the Mark Carney deficit will be in two hours?