Mr. Speaker, I am surprised by the comments of my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk. We should ask him how many Bloc Québécois seats he thinks it takes to make cheating morally acceptable. I sense some moral ambiguity in my colleague's questions now.
I have a question for my colleague from Rivière-du-Nord. We know that the Liberals do not want to pay. Usually, we would expect the reason to be that they have no money. However, they have been playing fast and loose with public funds since they came to power. With no budget in hand, they expect to overshoot the amount provided in the estimates by $38 billion and plan to spend $9 billion on defence. This frenzy of government spending is happening without any transparency to Parliament.
If their reasons for not paying an amount this size are not financial, why are they refusing to pay?