Maybe a Conservative thinks that a tax reduction of $25 per Canadian is something to get excited about; we had a $100 billion tax cut when we were in government. By that standard, these tax cuts are totally trivial and won't be noticed by anybody, so I don't understand why you've hyped up the media--perhaps it was to change the subject away from income trusts--to produce nothing.
My last point is in relation to the so-called five Canadian advantages. Here I would contend that your long-term plan is a warmed-over version of our previous fiscal update, but with no meat, with no money, because you spent all the money on GST cuts and you have no money for Canada's productivity and prosperity and competitiveness.
If you look at the entrepreneurial advantage, the knowledge advantage, the infrastructure advantage--three of your five--we dealt with those with billions of dollars. You've spent all your billions on GST cuts. You have no money left, so it's empty talk.
The other two of the five Canadian advantages include the tax advantage. I've just explained that those tax cuts are trivial. Finally there is the fiscal advantage, which talks about this elimination of the debt; by any conventional standard used by any standard economist in the land, you will take 160 years to pay it down. As I said, I'm not surprised that Mr. Harper went to Toronto today to generate some other news.