Dans son énoncé économique d'octobre dernier, juste pour démontrer le sérieux ou plutôt le non-sérieux et la paresse du ministre des Finances, il estimait les besoins de coupures non plus à 7 milliards, comme C.D. Howe le mentionnait, mais à plus de 9 milliards de dollars.
In his economic statement of last October-just to give members an example of the seriousness or, to be more precise, the lack thereof, and laziness on the part of the Minister of Finance-the minister estimated that costs would have to be cut not by $7 billion, as the C.D. Howe Institute indicated, but by more than $9 billion.