Mr. Speaker, I will use the example of medicare which is dear to the hearts of Canadians. When we describe the difference between an American and a Canadian, we often find Canadians saying that they have a wonderful medicare program.
How do we provide safety and surety for medicare into the long term to ensure that it will always be there? With increasing demands, looking at the changing demographic characterization of Canadian society, we will have quite an economic pressure on our medicare plan.
Which party in the House will ensure in its economic plan that we have viable universal medicare? It is the Reform plan, by first of all going after tax reduction. That is how we will ensure and guarantee that we have the available resources to pay for medicare. In other words, we need a vibrant economy to generate the wealth to pay for the social programs we so desire.