Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to a total falsehood which was presented by the hon. member when he mentioned that the Reform taxpayers budget had planned to cut $20 billion out of social program spending. Our budget committed very firmly to a maximum reduction in transfers to provinces, the famous money going to medicare, higher education and CAP, of only about $3 billion. Whereas his government took $7 billion from this program. It is totally false.
Over three years the total reduction in program spending would have been $16 billion, and well over half of that would have come out of savings, inefficiencies, overlap between governments, outrageous programs that had been bloated over the last 30 years. This is simply an incorrect representation which is despicable because it adds to something that is simply wrong.