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> Saving $10 Billion in Government Operations and Non-Social Spending
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>      Using these five principles, the Reform Party recommends spending reductions
> outlined below:
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>                                                                                  SAVINGS:
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>   1. The people at the "top" of the government must make the
>      first significant and visible sacrifices
>           Reform the MP Pension Plan, eliminate excessive
>           travel of federal officials, reduce the number of Ministers of
>           State and Parliamentary Secretaries                                 $10 MILLION
>           Across-the-board reductions to the Governor General, the Senate,
>           the House of Commons, the Privy Council Office, and the Prime
>           Minister's Office                                                   $60 MILLION
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>   2. Preserve funding for high priority items
>      No net reductions to the departments of Justice or Solicitor General
>      or in benefit payments from Veteran Affairs                                     ZERO
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>   3. Reduce duplication and overlap between federal and provincial
>      governments. Transfer some federal programs to other levels of
>      government, to the private sector or eliminate them altogether
>           Eliminate federal funding of Multiculturalism                       $22 MILLION
>           Eliminate unnecessary funding of Official Languages programs       $310 MILLION
>           Reduce government-to-government foreign aid and other
>           international commitments                                          $1.3 BILLION
>           Reduce subsidies to national museums and galleries, move toward
>           privatization of the film industry and enact other reductions in the
>           Department of Canadian Heritage                                    $450 MILLION
>           Privatize and wind down federal funding of airports and aviation   $350 MILLION
>           Reduce the budget of the Department of National Defence,
>           following the Special Joint Committee's recommendations to
>           increase land forces                                                 $1 BILLION
>           Downsize the Departments of Agriculture, Industry, Fisheries and
>           Oceans and Natural Resources                                       $640 MILLION
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>   4. Reduce the overhead costs of government as part of a comprehensive
>      restraint program
>           Reduce non-salary overhead costs of all departments by 15% with
>           larger reductions for departments to be merged or significantly reduced
>           in size                                                              $1 BILLION
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> 
>   5. A dollar in the hands of the taxpayer is more productive than in
>      the hands of government.
>      Eliminate regional development grant programs
>           Eliminate the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency                 $386 MILLION
>           Eliminate the Western Economic Diversification                     $452 MILLION
>           Eliminate the Federal Office of Regional Development - Quebec      $437 MILLION
>           Eliminate other regional and sector specific funding through
>           the Departments of Agriculture, Environment, Industry and Natural
>           Resources                                                          $690 MILLION
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>      Reduce Subsidies to Business
>           Reduce subsidies to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
>           (move to eventual privatization)                                   $365 MILLION
>           Eliminate the annual appropriation for Hibernia once current
>           contractual obligations expire in 1997                             $250 MILLION
>           Reduce subsidy to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
>           (CMHC) with a view to eventual full privatization and / or sale
>           of assets                                                          $525 MILLION
>           Fully privatize Via Rail                                           $330 MILLION
>           Reduce and eliminate business subsidies from the Departments of
>           Industry, Natural Resources, and Transport                         $750 MILLION
>           Identify and reduce tax concessions to business                    $500 MILLION
>           Eliminate all funding for special interest groups                  $125 MILLION
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> Miscellaneous Savings                                                         $48 MILLION
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> TOTAL SAVINGS*:                                                                                                                       $10 BILLION
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>      *Achieved at the end of the third fiscal year.
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