Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Quebecois just said that it has given us suggestions in terms of deficit reduction of some $15 billion. I hate to contradict their mathematics, but the number is nowhere near that. In fact it is not even one third of that.
That being said, what really must be done in this House by the opposition, and indeed the Reform Party have done it in part and have said they are going to do it before the budget, is to give us a comprehensive plan. It is quite easy to make great speeches. It is quite easy to set out targets with no background. But what is very, very difficult is to do the line by line study that allows us to deal with the profound structural problems of our economy and the way that governments spend.
In the month and a half that the opposition is going to have off, I would invite them to sit down and really work up a proper plan so that when we come down with the budget we can have an intelligent debate.