Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he wants to put his makeshift unity policy behind him and get on with jobs and the economy. So let us do that.
At present the greatest single impediment to job creation and economic growth in the country is the dead weight of the federal debt of $570 billion, a debt the government is adding to at the staggering rate of almost $100 million per day.
The IMF and Canadian business groups have repeatedly called upon the finance minister to get real and revise his weak deficit reduction targets.
Has the Prime Minister specifically instructed the finance minister to come up with a new deficit reduction target, the only one that means anything to the Canadian taxpayer, namely a zero deficit by 1997-98?