Mr. Speaker, first I would like to say to the hon. member that I listened to his remarks attentively. I share his view that the small and medium sized businessmen are under stress right now because of the incredible paper burden and tax situation which exists at all levels of government. I thought the hon. member's comments, unlike those of the Bloc Quebecois, were constructive.
Today is the day the minister of human resources has said that we are going to start afresh, that we are going to look at new ideas and new proposals. He did not say that we were going to withdraw from all social programs. He said that we were going to look at the existing social programs to see if they are meeting their original objectives.
For example, if there is a Government of Canada program of which only 10 cents on the dollar is going to the end user then obviously we would not want to support continuing that program.
The Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition said in his opening remarks-