I don't want to get into it with Ms. Ablonczy, but apparently in our budget papers--because I'm looking for something else and I'm having a hard enough time with the basic personal amounts--we're dealing with hundreds of thousands of people who are going to be off the payroll. But apparently, in this document, we were taking more people off than in your budget. I can't cite you the appropriate page.
That's why I want to talk about my amendment. The amendment basically is the same. We're going to end up in the same place as where the Conservatives want to end up.
In 2009, we want the basic personal amounts to be $10,000. All we're talking about here is reinstating the basic personal amounts or the spousal deduction at the amount that was suggested or that was accepted in the ways and means motion in the economic update of November 2005.
Basically, all we're doing is adding $500 in 2005, an extra $200 in 2006, $100 in 2007, $100 in 2008, and $300 in 2009. It's basically what there is right now. It's not complicated.
I know the wording seems to be more complicated because they're using $300, but if you look at page 7, in the middle, (ii), it's $10,000 in the years after 2009 and just before the year 2010, which is the same amount we're trying to get to, or the Conservatives are trying to get to in 2009, which is a $10,000 basic personal amount.
The issue is not complicated. I'm just asking for my amendment to be accepted.