Mr. Speaker, we have a program that is very clear. We have cut expenditures and we will keep cutting expenditures. We are making sure at the same time that we have growth in the economy.
If tomorrow we were to eliminate the deficit from $42 billion to zero there would be a huge recession in Canada. The wise thing is to do it in a progressive way. We are doing that.
There are a lot of people complaining because we have too many cuts but we will achieve our target of 3 per cent of GDP by the third year of our administration.