Mr. Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for his speech today. We are down to discussing differences of opinion rather than getting involved with who loves their mother more. That is very helpful.
I also agree with him that we need some major tax revision. We were looking at the process and have come forward with a substantial difference between the way the Liberals think about government and the way we believe Canadians want to think about government. We had to do a complete shift before we could come up with these numbers.
I would like to run these assumptions on jobs by the parliamentary secretary. The Liberal flawed assumption on jobs is that governments can solve the unemployment problem through public spending. The consequences are that government spend-
ing is now at an all time high. Yet over a million people are still unemployed or underemployed.
By comparison, the Reform Party believes that the private sector and not the government is the engine of job creation in Canada. The government's role is to create a healthy economic climate by eliminating the deficit, stabilizing and reducing taxes, and reducing bureaucratic regulation and trade barriers. The result is that we would have significant increases in private job sector creation. Does the member agree?