Because that chart is based on legislated rates, which are not the rates that Canadians actually pay. If you base your analysis on rates that Canadians actually pay, then many Canadians will be paying more. That is a fact.
My second and final point is that Mr. Del Mastro is being too modest, because his minister didn't claim 200,000 taken off the tax rolls; he claimed something like 600,000 taken off the tax rolls. So he's being too modest for his side.
The numbers are totally misleading, because again, they're based on this legalism that Canadians don't care about, this concept of the legislated tax rate rather than the basic personal tax rate that Canadians actually pay. If you base it on the actual basic personal amount, the effect of this budget is to reduce the basic personal amount, thereby adding 200,000 Canadians to the tax roll.
The only way we can stop this addition of 200,000 Canadians to the tax roll is to pass this amendment. It's really as simple as that. And once we agree on the terms of the debate, I think we'll agree on what the true implications are.