The largest part of economic activity in our country revolves around the spending by Canadian households on consumer goods of all kinds and on housing. This has been the area most affected by the stresses and uncertainty of the restructuring. As I said before, a good deal of the restructuring in the private sector has already occurred.
And private sector jobs have been increasing -- by 3.5 per cent in 1994 and 1.5 per cent in 1995. We now need to reduce some of the anxiety associated with public sector restructuring by getting on as quickly as possible with the fundamental decisions needed to put government programs and their funding on a sustainable basis.