In so doing, Madam Speaker, they are also directly contradicting themselves and their claims to want to increase economic growth opportunities, because by increasing the fiscal burden of taxpayers, the government is reducing their purchasing power and jeopardizing the already anemic economic recovery.
Finally, the Minister of Finance, the stand-up comic of Canadian economic policy, is soaking middle-income earners for more than half a billion in tax revenues over three years by taxing-and this is just one example-life insurance premiums paid by employers, by taxing middle-income earners.
Moreover, we now know the true meaning of the words "modernization" and "rationalization" when spoken by the Liberal government and the apparatchik.
The Minister of Finance, the real boss when it comes to running public affairs in Canada, is making, on the backs of the very people who have to rely on assistance from the entire community, a shameful $7.5 billion cut in social programs.