Mr. Speaker, this is typical bafflegab by the government. I was talking about discrimination and the fact that single families pay more than two income families.
The member talks about tax reduction. I did not dispute that there was a reduction in tax. I said that discrimination continues to exist. That surely was the point I raised. I could not be more explicit and definitive than that, but the member tried to avoid the subject by talking about tax reduction.
The government finally balanced the budget because of pressure put on it by the Canadian Alliance Party not to continue running deficits. The government finally, by virtue of economic growth and not by virtue of economic policy, balanced the budget and is now returning only some of the money to the taxpayer.
The Prime Minister said that the government would be balanced. He said that it would keep half the extra cash to spend as it wanted and give half back to the taxpayer. I would like to see it all go back to the taxpayer. It was and still is the taxpayers' money. The government does not have a right to that money except to provide programs for the benefit of the country and not for the whim of the Prime Minister. Therein lies a significant difference.