Mr. Speaker, I was listening to what the Reform member was saying, and I did not have much to add until she made her last point on the topic of the debt. Although the government is dealing with the debt, the way it is doing it is not to her liking. I agree with her. But, I have the impression that the Reform Party takes the following position: any person in debt will have to starve for the next three years.
That seems to be the case, and that is what I am having trouble understanding. Of course, we can cut year after year and try to reduce the debt, strive to reach the three per cent benchmark, but we cannot say, tomorrow, that we will stop eating. I would not be able to keep working, I would not earn very much and I would not be able to pay very much either. I would be interested in hearing how her draconian cuts would reduce over the next three years the some $30 billion deficit we have now and which is mostly caused by the debt, and I agree with her in principle that it must be done. But I would like to know more about her starvation ideology.