Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister of Finance.
Between 1993 and 1998, this government will have taken $19 billion from the employment insurance fund, $11 billion from social transfers to the provinces and $5 billion from its employees' retirement fund. However, expenditures by departments and crown corporations will have been reduced only by a little more than $2 billion.
Instead of looting pension funds, the employment insurance fund and provincial social programs, when will the Minister of Finance reduce his spending by really cleaning up his departments?