Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, many of my provincial counterparts have been pushing hard for tax relief, even some of the opposition. The Reform Party said the same thing. What I am trying to say to my honourable colleague, Mr. Martin probably had the most difficult task of any Finance Minister in the history of the federal government, a balanced budget for the first time in 30 years. He has had to make some tough choices. You cannot spend what you do not have. He indicated yesterday and today, from what I saw, I do not want to sound like an advocate for the man, but certainly I admire what he has done, and I am proud to say that today. As an advocate, we are in a situation where he is advocating there will be additional initiatives by the federal government in the year 1999 and the year 2000 because he is projecting a balanced budget in these years. The fact that we have tax credits on the table, my honourable colleague, is an important one because it was not there before. You have to give the man some credit that he had to balance the budget. He is now looking at options that will be good for Canadians and northern Canada. I think that is important.

One area, I talked about earlier today, the child tax benefit, which my honourable colleague almost single-handedly persuaded me months ago that we should look at, there is going to be an additional $850 million there. I would hope he would be encouraged by that and I am sure he is. This will put more money into the hands of the less fortunate. It is a good budget. It is not perfect by any means. I said earlier today in the press I was concerned about a number of areas: infrastructure, job creation, health care, et cetera, so there are some areas that have some weaknesses. I am encouraged by the fact this is the first step for future initiatives, which I hope we will be able to do, with my provincial counterparts, influence Mr. Martin in the coming months ahead, and I certainly intend to do that with the clear and concise advice that I get from my colleague from Iqaluit and other Members of this House. Thank you.