Madam Speaker, if I have to congratulate the President of the Treasury Board on the introduction of this policy it must surely be with a very small c .
The country is crying out for cuts, elimination of waste, downsizing, less government, and yet the number one item in the minister's statement is that he will formally eliminate central policy reserves. Surely we could do much better than this.
There is nothing in this statement about departmental cuts or elimination of departments. The minister is shuffling the policy chairs on the deck of the Titanic . These policies provide a different look at a serious but old problem of runaway deficits. There is not one single word in this statement about cuts, about smaller government, about downsizing the civil service.
We can only say that we are extremely disappointed in the statement and we look for more, bigger and better news in the budget.