I would like to add that where I come from, and I do not say it in an unkind way because I am not a nasty person, we are trying not only to keep what we have and to improve it but we also want to try to understand others and to develop ways of working and living together to make everyone's life better. For us, that is very important.
I drew attention in the House this week to a big Voyageur Festival we were having and I invited all my colleagues to come and see how things were in our part of the country. I would be really glad to see you because we hear people speaking French, we have native people, we even have people from all over the world. Frankly, it is wonderful. Tomorrow night, I will be with francophones from France and francophones from Manitoba, because we still have people who speak French.
I want to go back to the comment regarding what is going very well in Manitoba. I think the hon. member was listening, but he was not paying attention as closely as he should have because I gave an example of something which was not going well. I said that there are problems. If the hon. member thinks there are no problems, whether we refer to Quebec, Manitoba or another province, then I honestly think that his vision must be blurred.
There are problems everywhere. And we are here to solve those problems. I recognize that what we are doing here is very important. I recognize that everybody wants to reduce spending. If this is what you want to do, and I believe it is, fine. But we also want to do it, and the Reform Party wants to do it as well. However, what I said was that there is already a committee where this can be done.
The chairperson of that committee will be a Bloc Quebecois member. Do we have a majority? I think we do, but you are not going to tell me that because we have a majority we are not going to listen to common sense, even if it comes from a member of another party. If that was the case, it would not work at all.
The hon. member might want to reconsider what he said, because he is suggesting that we, Liberals, do not have people who can sit on this committee, listen to a proposal which makes sense, and say "yes, this is a good idea". I want to assure the hon. member that we do have such people. In fact, we have a lot of talented men and women who are willing to work for you. They want to create jobs and cut non-essential government spending, and they also want to make our country better for everyone.