Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. McCallum, you'll recall, as we heard from witnesses the other day, that this budget specifically moves an additional 200,000 people entirely off the tax roll. It doesn't add anybody.
No, it doesn't, because there are other measures in the budget that specifically remove a much larger percentage of people—a much greater number of people—off the tax roll entirely than anything that was ever proposed before. We heard finance department officials say exactly that
So what you are in fact indicating is that you dispute what the finance department officials maintained, and in fact you're misleading the public by over 400,000 people.
Yes, you are. We heard that an additional 200,000 people—more than anything that had ever been proposed, including in the latest “budget three” by the Liberals last year—will be removed entirely from the tax rolls.