Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, I think the Minister is correct in what he’s saying, but I just have to say what we saw last budget session. That happened because of haphazard cost cutting measures government-wide. There was no rhyme or reason to what happened in February.
I’m saying something needs to happen so that level of analysis, the detailed information, does take place so we can all make decisions collectively. I just didn’t see that happening. When you just hand it over to your DMs and tell them to cut $6 million in this department, $7 million in that department, you’re just going to get back the product they want you to get back. There’s no political direction there. So I think we need to take the reins back.
I’d like to ask the Minister again: will he commit to some type of zero based spending review government-wide? It doesn’t have to be every government department today, but we have to start somewhere.