Mr. Speaker, I have spoken about the importance of budgets in the democratic process and in the Canadian context as well. I did not hear any response to that at all from the government side.
The issue, of course, is that these are time-tested democratic instruments that we have. We are the institution, the House of Commons, that authorize this, but Canadians have to have their eyes on what their government is spending on and why the deficits are getting so large, because it has already become a large problem, and it is going to become a bigger problem.
Let us accept that we have a government that is now run by a central banker, and central bankers have a penchant for solving the problem by printing money. Printing money is going to cause inflation, and we know this. It is time-tested and known around the world. Inflation is going to cause heartbreak and heartache in so many sectors of our economy. This is the big issue here. Will the government please get ahead of the deficit issue, because it is going to cause significant financial pain for all Canadians?