Mr. Speaker, the government election campaign was run in October 1993 on a platform which said that it would achieve 3 per cent of GDP by the end of the third year of the
mandate. The Minister of Finance has brought down a budget. We are on track.
If members noticed, the Minister of Finance said today that not only are we going to meet this year's deficit target, we will do substantially better. I think that is important.
The hon. member asked a very important question. What would be better, zero or 25? It is the same question, the answer to which is basically that the operation was a success but the patient died. That is what the Reform Party is proposing. It is proposing an operation that will get us to zero, but at the same time Canada's social programs will die.