Madam Speaker, in answer to my hon. friend from The Battlefords-Meadow Lake, this is a time when the country is in a financial crisis. It is a time that can be compared to a financial crisis in the family home. The time comes when the family does not have enough money to live the lifestyle which it had grown to like. It is the time to separate the wants from the needs.
There are so many different areas in which we spend money which clearly could be described as needs. There is also a tremendous amount of ways in which we spend money that clearly could be described as wants. If we are ever going to get our financial house in order we have to make a clear distinction between our needs and our wants.