Madam Speaker, I understand that some of my friends in Reform do not agree with that. It pains me to stand here and say something they do not agree with. Sometimes we do not agree on every point. One of the things we do not agree on is that we need a slash and burn budget, that we have to have a budget that destroys essential programs. There is another way.
They shake their heads at me. I am just a bumpkin from Newfoundland. Let me read for them what some other people are saying. I will let them decide whether they are bumpkins and where they are from.
This is what somebody said: "Martin's '95 budget chewed heavily into spending reductions while taking a relatively light tax bite. The result is a budget the Canadian economy should be able to digest without an extreme amount of heartburn or acid indigestion". That person was not from Newfoundland.
Another person said this.