Madam Speaker, I listened very carefully to the speech by the hon. member, which contained figures, figures and more figures.
A year ago, when the members of the Reform Party arrived in the House of Commons, I remember their comments in an initial newspaper article in which they talked about a club sandwich costing less in the parliamentary cafeteria. We in the Bloc Quebecois were talking about tax reform. They then went on to talk about the shoeshine people; we were talking about tax shelters. We were therefore not quite on the same wavelength for savings to really be made.
The government talks about reducing the deficit to 3 per cent of the GDP. Could the hon. member tell us what percentage of the GDP he would like the deficit to be at, himself, so the debt could be paid back as quickly as possible, but without ever losing sight of the most disadvantaged, the unemployed and seniors?
I am not prepared, politically, to say that we are going to go after the most vulnerable in our society, who are unable to defend themselves, and that we will leave the rich alone. As I have said in the past and will continue to say, the good Lord and good common sense must go hand in hand. Therefore there has to be a balance between the rich and the poor classes. I do not want the poor to get poorer. I want a balance to exist.
I would like the hon. member to give me an idea of the rate he would bring his percentage to without affecting the most disadvantaged.