Mr. Speaker, by the way, I want to make an official announcement. It is well known that in the next week the Reform caucus room will be renamed Jurassic Park. I hope we will be invited to the opening.
The real question of credibility is what Canadians take as being the honest efforts of a government to balance out its priorities. Those are to make sure that we can start living within our means and using our fiscal system to restore health while at the same time maintaining the kind of justice and compassion that we have.
I think the credibility of the hon. member's own party fell apart in its alternative budget. The Reform Party talks about clawbacks of $3 billion on seniors pensions. It talks about taking away maternity benefits from women. It also talks about virtually doing away with the Canada assistance plan and turning it into some kind of investment program. Imagine a single parent with three children in downtown Toronto saying: "Yes, I have a few thousand dollars. I am going to invest in my own registered retirement savings income security program". That shows no credibility.
We are trying to balance the two off. We know we have to make some cuts. At the same time, we believe in the kind of social reform we are initiating. It enables us to sit down with the provinces and the private sector to establish partnerships for new training programs and new job programs. We all share in the cost. We eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and we get rid of duplicated programs. It is under those kinds of initiatives that we can begin to use our valuable resources in a much more effective way.
It seems to me that members of the Reform Party have completely and entirely abdicated the notion that good, effective management can bring about better results. Maybe it is because they know they will never have the opportunity to manage anything in the federal Government of Canada at any time, anywhere. Therefore they do not focus on the requirement to ask how to do things better.
The Reform Party has given the name Reform a bad currency. The real meaning of reform is to be able to make effective changes without losing one's values. We have maintained our Liberal values and we are going to make effective changes.