Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague failed to answer the question put by the member for Calgary East about whether she approved of the tens of thousands of dollars in government contracts let to the campaign workers of the minister responsible for CIDA. The hon. member said there is no waste in a program budget of $125 billion.
Her own Liberal colleagues on the finance committee agreed with the opposition that to the extent new spending on security and defence could lead to a deficit the government must balance the new spending with spending cutbacks elsewhere.
Would the hon. member define whether she thinks there is such an elsewhere? If so, where is it? Where would she and her colleagues reduce spending to allow for increased security spending?