I'd like to ask Mr. Battle something. I had the opportunity to be at a meeting where he presented, some time ago, on the universal child care benefit, and I've seen some of the statistics and I think frankly they're startling in terms of who gets to keep the money and who doesn't.
I'll give you the opportunity to comment on that as much as you would like to, but--and this may seem harsh--my view of this budget is that it's very mean and that in Canada in the last number of years, under both Progressive Conservative and Liberal governments, even in difficult economic times there has been an effort to at least try to equalize the difference between the richest and the poorest. This has not always been done successfully, not always well enough, but the child tax benefit, for example, has in fact reduced child poverty significantly, I believe.
I'd like to get your view on this budget. Is this a change in terms of the way Canadian governments of all political stripes have viewed budget making?