Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for St. Boniface read from a number of newspaper articles and quoted a variety of sources that commended somewhat the budget but not in a conclusive way. It was said that it is a good first step but Canada faces challenges.
One of the major challenges that Canada and individual citizens face is the fact that the government, in its first period of administration, by 1996-97 will have placed in the laps of Canadians another $100 billion in debt without any plan, without any indication that there is finality or an appointed time at which that debt will stop accumulating and growing. There is not one mention or indication at all to Canadians that it is going to stop.
Does the hon. member after all of his fine pronouncements have the answer to the question when the deficits will stop accumulating on the debt? Then Canadians will know the finite sum of our debt, at which point we will have to deal with it.