Madam Speaker, I have a couple of points. I find it somewhat amusing to actually have a member of the Reform Party talk about the fact that this is not a caring government.
I only want to remind the hon. member that some of the documents that the Reform Party has put out talk about reduction in program spending to 10.5% of GDP, which equates to $10 billion, another $10 billion to be found somewhere. The Reform Party talks about spending more on education and health care and reinvesting in Canadians when in fact it does not talk about where it is going to get that money.
The Reform Party offers up a bunch of one time savings that even the auditor general says are only one time savings. It talks about ongoing expenditures. It talks about cutting equalization which will affect the majority of provinces. That is what the Reform Party is talking about. At the same time it talks about caring.
It talks about student loans and that this budget does nothing for students. We spent the last week talking to a number of university students and college students who talked about the investment that this government has finally made in education so that students do have access.
I would like the hon. member to stand up and say that this budget was wrong when it now allows a student to write off the interest cost they incur for their education, just like a business writes off the costs that it would incur to run its business. What is wrong with that?
The member focuses on the millennium scholarship. It is a seven point program. The hon. member should take the time to read what the education package is all about so that he can go out and speak intelligently with the students in his own riding and not just focus on one particular part of the strategy that he does not like. I would submit that Canadian do support it.