And he added that his goal for future budgets was to lower the basic rate to only 20 percent.
He set aside $1.8 billion to shore up future budgets.
Perhaps I could ask her to do that in advance of future budgets.
The question therefore raised today goes beyond the debate on the future budget.
I believe that it would be a mistake to start by talking about the amounts for the future budget.
In committee, we decided to recommend increasing the future budget by 5%.
If problems remain we must come back to this in future budgets.
The future budget would be for investment in areas like education, highways and research.
The current and future budgets must support these increased costs.
If future budgets allow, we could add more subsidies later.