Mr. Speaker, I have not had the opportunity to see this alternate budget to which the member referred in his remarks.
I did see an alternate budget put out by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives last week. It looked at balancing the budget by looking at the expenditure side and some of the tax loopholes, the foundations that have been set up for the wealthy and the tax breaks there and so on.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to go through a paper put out by the Council of Canadians which looks at the question: Are social programs to blame for the federal debt? It clearly points out in the analysis that program spending as a percentage of GDP has remained relatively constant in social programs over the years.
Your remarks seem to indicate an attack on the social program side. I am wondering if you in your budget, do you have any-