Mr. Speaker, my colleague spoke at length about the importance of numbers and the importance of controlling a budget that includes spending and investments. However, numbers can be made to say whatever one wants.
The 2025 budget introduces a new method of calculating investments. The Bloc Québécois applied this calculation method to previous fiscal years. This revised calculation significantly changes the results of past years, because it changes the way certain expenditures and investments are recorded. For example, by applying the new calculation method introduced by the Minister of Finance, we see that in 2015-16, there would have been a surplus of $11.2 billion.
This new method therefore appears to be rather questionable. What does my Conservative colleague think?