It is the financial structure, the reorganization of the government, the production of an excellent first budget and, for the first time in the history of any government, the production of a prebudget process with documents from the Minister of Finance to show Canadians exactly what we have to do to get ourselves reorganized.
On our anniversary date they give us our strong hand to talk about it. Thank you very much, team. This is exactly what we need.
Let me just talk about some of the things that we have done for the last year. In this very instructive book called "The First Eight Months of the Liberal Government-Promises Made, Promises Kept", 43 areas are mentioned in which we said before the election we would proceed. These areas range from fairer taxes, federal-provincial fiscal arrangements, GATT, the goods and services tax, job creation, North American free trade, prebudget consultation, reducing the deficit, removing interprovincial trade barriers, child support payments, literacy initiatives, social security reform, unemployment insurance, youth employment and learning strategy, the Atlantic groundfish strategy, building Canada's infrastructure, Canadian space program, protecting fish stocks, the reintroduction of the residential rehabilitation assistance program, the science and technology review, supporting small and medium sized businesses, the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, international leadership, protecting Canada's
wildlife, the end of tobacco smuggling, the enhancement of Canadian cultural identity-