Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
I was looking through Hansard and found that when the budget was debated in 1991 the then member for Winnipeg South Centre criticized the cuts by the provincial government in health care, social programs and post-secondary education. He said:
As a result, the ability to have any kind of national system of education and health care now stands in jeopardy.
He also said that these cuts cut the very fundamental institutions on which people depend and that they were being dismantled.
Since the minister was so critical of measures considerably less harsh than those his government has taken, could he say why the cuts to education, health care and social programs, much deeper than the last government's, are so good when the last government's cuts were so bad?