Mr. Speaker, as a reflection of what my Reform colleague said, I must say that the Dr. Feelgood kind of thing this government seems to be into, trust it, everything is going to be fine, is very difficult to swallow when one realizes that this very day this government is going to the financial marketplaces all over the world, cap in hand to try and find $110 million.
I have the good fortune, if I can be permitted to be a little personal, that this week I am expecting to become a grandfather for the first time. As a consequence, it is a sincere and very personal concern for me that we have a government in power today that is prepared to encumber my grandchild to be with the spending of today.
The Reform Party came forward with its zero in three plan in 1992 and here we are just three years later. There is only so much that can be taken out of non-social spending. As a consequence for us to get to zero, which we must do in three years and what this motion is all about, we have now accelerated and gone from only taking $9 billion out of social spending to having to take a further $7 billion out of social spending. That has happened in two and a half years.
I ask the member in good conscience, and I am sure he will realize that I am being deeply sincere, whether it is really not immoral for this Parliament to go ahead and transfer the spending of today probably to my future grandchild's grandchildren. Is there not some kind of problem in the thinking of this member and perhaps in the thinking of the government that we should be doing that?