Maybe I could just briefly explain the purpose of this.
The Conservatives have already voted twice just now to raise the taxes of Canadians. The budget in fact reduces the basic personal amount, and as Dale Orr has indicated, the effect of this reduction of the basic personal amount in the budget is to add 200,000 low-income Canadians to the tax rolls.
The budget, through this measure, is adding 200,000 low-income Canadians to the tax rolls, people who would not otherwise pay taxes. All we're doing is changing the personal amount back to where it was before, so that we don't add low-income Canadians to the tax rolls. If they show no compassion to hard-working Canadians, in terms of insisting on raising the rates, maybe they could at least refrain from cutting the basic personal amount, which adds 200,000 low-income Canadians to the tax rolls.
Those are the grounds on which I am asking for support for this amendment.