Madam Speaker, I heard the figures being thrown around by a person who professes to have some knowledge of mathematics. I am surprised by the document the Reform Party put out, the taxpayers budget.
I simply refer to the last page of that document, the summary. It shows total program spending cuts of $25 billion. With a deficit of $42 billion created by the Conservative government, Reform would cut $25 billion over a three year period, $8 billion per year. Cuts of $8 billion per year would put it in a worse position than the present targets of the finance minister.
This is nothing but a document of deception put out by the Reform Party. Twenty-five billion over three years is $8 billion per year. Eight billion from forty-two means it would be running a deficit of $34 billion a year and it would be happy with it. It is not happy with what the government is doing but it is happy with $34 billion a year.
Reform is critical of what the finance minister is doing. Perhaps it should get a calculator that works. It should be a Liberal calculator because it is obvious the Reform calculator does not have any batteries.