Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Human Resources Development misrepresented the Reform position on spending reductions.
It is the government's own deficit target, your own deficit target, that calls for up to $15 billion in total spending cuts.
Will the finance minister acknowledge that reaching his deficit target of about $25 billion from a current deficit of about $40 billion that the government will have to cut up to $15 billion and is the minister going to cut spending or increase taxes?