Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his maiden speech.
In 1993 we were told that there was a huge deficit in the country. The Liberals chose to cut funding for health care as one of their priorities. I felt that was a mistake in priority and thought that possibly areas such as HRDC grants and contributions could have gone down so health care could have been preserved.
From the member's perspective would he share the belief that there were other areas that could have been cut to reduce the deficit rather than in our health care system?