Mr. Speaker, I remind the Prime Minister that the net difference between what the federal government has taken from the province of Alberta over the last 25 years and what it has spent is in the vicinity of $100 billion, so his implications are a little bit off.
I have a further supplementary. The government's budget projects spending cuts of almost $4 billion by 1996-97 through the reform of social programs. Many Canadians do not believe the government will follow through on these social spending reductions during the same time period that it will be making a special effort to sell the benefits of federalism in Quebec.
Will the Prime Minister unequivocally tell the House that the federal government will follow through on these proposed spending reductions no matter what?