Mr. Speaker, I have certainly heard many people voice their concerns. It is a real challenge to reduce our deficit and our debt. As our finance minister has said, we are doing it on short term targets.
Canadians are being able to live through this period of time. If we were to follow the Reform Party budget, we certainly would have blood in the streets. People will not stand there and see their necks cut.
This week a newspaper editorial in a major Canadian daily warned the voters in Ontario that if they buy Mike Harris they will get the whole package. When our human resources development standing committee was touring the western Canada provinces, which I love so greatly, in November and December, we had witnesses coming before us with tears in their eyes, especially in Alberta, telling how the Reform type government was making cuts on the backs of the working and the poor people. I am proud to be a Liberal and be part of a government that will cut the deficit and the debt and will do it while allowing people to live.