Mr. Speaker, I want to make one short comment and then ask a question.
I think the member is not being reasonable on the infrastructure program. During the establishment of infrastructure the job time might be for three, six or nine months but the actual completed infrastructure provides an environment. As the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance said, the new transport system from the airport in Winnipeg will be there for 30 or 40 years. It will allow for the economy in that sector to move forward in a more efficient and productive way in terms of exports to the southern United States.
However I want to ask the member a question about the deficit and the debt. As the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance said in his remarks this morning, if our interest rates were to go up by half a point it would cause an added burden of approximately $3.5 billion in service charges. Obviously we have to create an environment where we can stabilize our interest rates and create a system that would put downward pressure on interest rates, which subsequently would allow us to have a lower cost in servicing the debt of the country.
Does the finance critic for the Reform Party believe a tax system that is fair and promotes entrepreneurship could reverse capital flows that are currently leaving the country? By capital flows reversing and coming back to Canada a downward pressure could be put on interest rates. Does the finance critic believe that comprehensive tax reform could create that possibility?