Mr. Speaker, first let me correct the facts. For every seven dollars cut there is only one dollar on the revenue side in action taken by the government. We have cut seven dollars for every one dollar of revenue whether it is through fees or in some other way. It is not accurate to say that most of the changes came about as a result of a change to the revenue side.
The approach this government has taken has not been to cut everything by 10 per cent or 20 per cent. We said let us look at government and see where we can improve, where we need to cut and where we need to add. Let us see where we need to add more money to government so that we have a core government, that we have an efficient government and we have a government that is working for the people of this country and not just a straight percentage cut everywhere. That is why we looked at the priorities of what is important for Canadians before we made the changes that we did in the budget.