Mr. Speaker, what I set out yesterday, among the various scenarios, was a scenario based on a prudent assessment of what interest rates are going to be and of the necessity to arrive at savings of $9 billion cumulatively over a two-year period.
As to where that is going to come from, I set out very clearly a list of all government expenditures, a list of all spending and tax expenditures. We have set in place a process of consultation which is unique in Canadian economic history. It is very important that the process work.
I ask the leader of the Reform Party and his colleagues who sit on that committee to give us their suggestions, to join in drawing Canadians out as we have to, to make the trade-offs.
It is crucial, in the period into which we are going and the budget into which we are going, that we build bridges to Canadians so there is a national consensus of the need to face up to the problems at which we are looking.