Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. Yesterday, in answer to a question in this House, the Prime Minister left open the possibility that he might renege on his commitment not to increase taxes when he said, and I quote:
-if people do not want us to make cuts, the alternative is to raise taxes.
So, I ask the Minister of Finance: Are we to understand that the Minister of Finance is contemplating a tax increase for the middle class since, except for cutting indiscriminately in social programs, he is unable to cut where it is really necessary, that is in the government's operating expenditures?