Mr. Speaker, the news is out that the government's 2 per cent of GDP deficit target for 1997-98 can be reached with further negligible cuts. The minister blinked and lost his courage to do what is right for Canada. Will the minister go back to the drawing board, lower his deficit target, cut spending more and offer Canadians what they want and what they so richly deserve: a hope for tax cuts before the end of the century?
In the House of Commons on December 11th, 1995. See this statement in context.