Mr. Speaker, on July 1 we introduced a new $850 million program to help poor families. In addition, last spring the Minister of Human Resources Development implemented a program to provide almost $1 billion in assistance over three years to fishers in Newfoundland, Quebec and elsewhere.
We have put a great deal of money into social programs and we have also paid down the debt, which means that we are a very balanced government that is doing everything it can to meet both its social and its financial responsibilities.