Mr. Speaker, I have an editorial referring to the levies on property owners. I want to hear what the member thinks about this:
It's tough to quibble with such initiatives as exempting municipal governments from the GST--Ottawa never should have been taxing municipal governments, which are financed by levies on property owners paid with their after-tax income--and even with returning a portion of gas taxes to civic governments to address infrastructure needs that have been neglected for too long.
Government members are talking like that tax is theirs to spend. We pay those taxes. Those taxes are levied on us. Would the member like to comment on this article?