Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.
Dr. Donald Savoie, an economist who has studied the politics of public spending in Canada over the past 20 years, has reached this conclusion: that major efforts at government cost cutting are almost never successful unless they are fully and vigorously backed by the leader of that government.
In light of that conclusion, would the Prime Minister care to retract or to modify his comments made in Alberta last week to the effect that there will be no further spending cuts in the next three years other than those announced in the 1994 budget?