Mr. Speaker, I would say exactly what the Minister of Finance said. In the budget that was presented in the House we made provisions for cuts over the next three years.
If we have 3 per cent and 3.8 per cent growth in the next two years, we will be at 3 per cent of GNP in relation to the deficit. The programs cuts for the next three years have been announced. They are the big programs like defence, social expenditures and so on.
In the meantime we have asked the minister responsible for federal-provincial relations to work very actively to find some duplications between provincial governments and federal government and to reduce the duplications, and to look into all the boards within government operations and to reduce them in order to find further cuts.
These will not be the major cuts as mentioned in the budget. When we talk about the cuts in defence and other cuts announced in the budget, they were very serious cuts indeed.