Madam Speaker, obviously the hon. member needs some clarification because he is probably reading those statistics upside down, as Liberals normally do.
If I can take a moment to clarify our position. The Reform Party has always campaigned that there should be more money made available especially for health care and education. That is in all our campaign material from the last election and we continue to say it is possible.
The reason we say that is we all know, as I mentioned in my speech, this government fails to see what exactly it needs to priorize when it comes to spending. If we would sit down and put partisan politics aside, as we continue to hear from that corner of the House, and say what is best for Canadians perhaps we could find the solutions that the Reform Party has put forward when it comes to putting more money in areas of health care and education.
I will not get into the specifics, but we have outlined areas where we see enormous amounts of waste in the way the federal government spends its money. I would take the time with the hon. member any time to show him that waste and hopefully we can come to the conclusion that the Reform Party has the answer.
We want to work with the provinces, unlike the heavy handed way of central government we have seen from the Liberals. We want to work with the provinces to actually achieve their goals in the best possible way.
I encourage the member to take a close look at those figures and look at himself and see that the Liberals have done more to hurt the social union in Canada than the Reform has ever done in its history.