I want to clarify something right up front. Often we hear, especially in this committee, a lot of political agendas being pursued. But when we have conversations in private, we can see that we believe in the same things, though we may believe in different ways of achieving them. The Conservative government believes that we can achieve higher rates of literacy. We believe that we can achieve lower rates of homelessness and higher rates of employment for workers, both old and young. We believe in support for boys, girls, families, workers, and seniors. Our party simply believes that we can do it better than we have in the past.
We also believe that we need to be better stewards of the dollars Canadians have entrusted us with. I don't think there should be a lot of disagreement on that point. I believe Canadians deserve more credit for their ability to make the right decisions with their money. And our government has made decisions to give Canadians back more of their own money. We're talking about all Canadians: children within families of all kinds, single parents, two-parent families, seniors, workers young and old, and students. We've tried to make decisions that we believe are in the best interests of all Canadians.
I want to thank you all for coming. It's good to hear all opinions. I even appreciate opinions opposed to some of the things we're doing. We can always learn and we can always do better. Of course we can.
I have some specific questions today for each of you. I'd like to know what each of your organizations had cut from your budgets.