Mr. Speaker, I was trying to provide an adequate answer to the hon. member who made a rather long speech.
We will not target only one group. As I said clearly, if we are to succeed in alleviating our financial problems, we must target every sector in our society. This is why the Minister of Finance and the finance committee are currently asking Canadians to tell them how they feel the problem can be solved and where cuts should be made to ensure fairness. Indeed, we want to be fair and the only way to do that is to ask sacrifices not just from one group but from all Canadians.
This has been the underlying principle of all the reforms announced by this government, even though the hon. member does not agree, for example, with the way we want to implement the social program reform. We can no longer afford to pay people to stay home. In fact, the Bloc Quebecois headquarters in Quebec City also denounced that situation. During the election campaign, it criticized every cut made by the Quebec Liberal government. Now that the Parti Quebecois is in office, it has decided that the Liberal government budget will remain untouched and that no changes are necessary.
We are all faced with the same problem and separation is not the solution. The problem will be solved by doing like the rest of the world, that is by working together and trying to find solutions and share those solutions. I am convinced that when the new Quebec government holds its referendum, Quebecers will vote to stay in Canada and they will continue, along with the rest of the country, to work to solve our financial problems, to put some order in government finances and to build a country in which they will be happy to live.
The fact is that in spite of our major problems, the United Nations just declared for the second time that Canada is the best country in which to live. I keep repeating to the hon. members opposite that there are millions of people in the world who would give everything to come to Canada. We are not bankrupt yet and I think Canada is still a pretty nice place to live.