Mr. Speaker, I would hate to take us down the same road that we went yesterday. I will not say what I said, but the minister must have some pretty serious concerns about that.
He says that we will cut health care. Maybe now it is becoming clear to me why this minister is the finance minister and why there are some serious problems. We are talking about putting $4 billion back into health care. He has cut $3 billion. That may be why we are having such serious problems within the finance department.
The Prime Minister last weekend told delegates that once the budget was balanced his government would return to its free spending Liberal ways. The Prime Minister could lower taxes if he was willing to kick his spending habit. That is the problem.
Why does the Prime Minister think that $15 billion in the hands of government bureaucrats or politicians will do more good than those $15 billion in the hands of Canadian taxpayers?