Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to the hon. member for Nanaimo-Cowichan pointing out how he and his party feel that there has to be more staffing in the immigration department. It seems that is a necessity.
I have also been listening to his party for the last year and a quarter complaining that the government must cut some $40 billion from the deficit and they keep saying it should be done almost immediately. That will mean reducing about 25 per cent of the services that the government now looks after which presumably will mean a 25 per cent cut in the personnel who have been delivering those services.
If the hon. member is going to be adding to the immigration department, what departments is he going to be proposing to do away with and where can he get rid of 25 per cent of the current crop of civil servants and still add to some departments? He will have to do away with whole departments and perhaps do away with the military to perform these new services that he is now advocating. Where can he take these kinds of cuts and still get rid of about a quarter and still add to his chosen ministry?