Mr. Speaker, I am pleased the hon. member asked that. The Reform party has attempted to get quite a bit of misinformation throughout the country, but not with very much success. Most people who have looked at the budget, and obviously the Reform has not, will know that the birthrate in the aboriginal community is two and half times that of the white community. Next year per capita the aboriginal person will receive less than they do now.
To do those things as we said in the red book, in addition to the 442 people we already laid off, we will be laying off another 300 people. We will be freezing salaries at the ministry, as the member knows. We will also be freezing salaries in the aboriginal communities and we will be cutting $15 million from the northern development program.
That is the reality, not the myths that the member and his party are spreading throughout the country.