Madam Speaker, I am not sure of the hon. member's background. Do not take my word for it; let us go to the experts.
How about Fred Ketchen, chairman of the board of the Toronto Stock Exchange who states: "It seems to me that the fellas at Moody's and the other bond rating services will be encouraged by what they heard the finance minister say today in what I would assess as being a responsible, a fair, a realistic, and even a humane budget".
Let us go back to the chartered accountants, the group that represents the chartered accountants of Canada, the 55,000 accountants. They support the restructuring of transfer payments to the provinces and the decision to build more flexibility into Canada's educational and social program transfers to provinces with the creation of the Canada social transfer program. This is precisely what this member has been concerned about.
The Reform Party in its questions talks status quo. Before the budget it came out with this ridiculous plan to cut everything; gone in two years: "We are going to put them in sleeping bags in the streets across Canada, but we are going to get that budget deficit down to zero". That is not the way it is going to be with the government. The government does it fairly and equitably and it is going to work. With our two-year rolling plan the House is going to be full of Liberals after the next federal election.