What we found with low-income folks is they're not benefiting from the tax cuts or from the so-called Alberta advantage, as people at the high incomes are. We don't honestly feel that the tax cuts by the federal government or the provincial government have benefited low-income folks. We have seen the exact opposite happen. For over the last two decades they've had less and less disposable income. Whether it's through the privatization of services, the user fees on services, or the contracting out of services, we have just seen that there are fewer and fewer services available and more and more fees attached to them.
Evidence of meeting #11 for Finance in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was calgary.
