Mr. Speaker, I will try to be as brief as possible. I know the hon. member had a number of things to say but I draw him back to the 1999 Reform budget plan which talks about what the opposition would propose.
The Reform plan does not include any economic prudence. It talks about surpluses of $30 billion to $35 billion. It talks about average GDP growth over the next three years of 5.5%, almost two times the private sector. Reformers want to cut taxes by $9 billion a year. They want to reduce the debt by $9 billion. They want to cut EI premiums by $7 billion for a total bill of $25 billion. It is very important that Reformers tell Canadians and certainly members of the House how they would finance it. We would go back into deficit. What would they cut? Is it health care? Is it research? Is it education?
If we built budgets the way the Reform Party did we would have—