Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate the answer by the hon. minister.
The Reform Party was up front. We laid it out that we would reduce by $15 billion the social program spending.
What I am asking the minister and the government of this country to do is to lay it out for Canadians and tell them the truth about what is going to happen. That is what we want.
If we look at this 1995-96 budget, the government's transfer proposals provide no additional tax points and actually cut cash transfers to provinces by 20 per cent to 25 per cent. What else is going to happen?
Is this one of the ways that the government is planning to decentralize the deficit but there is a hidden agenda that provinces do not understand?