I think this budget should be voted down. I think it should be voted down for three key reasons. One, it only achieves one percent stimulus. I was in Washington, D.C., on the G-20. Our government agreed to spend two percent; they're only spending one percent.
The victims of this crisis are being ignored, Mr. Mulcair. The women and the unemployed are being ignored in favour of fancy tax cuts and other things that do nothing in the short term to offset the damage to the victims, unemployed Canadians, who through no fault of their own--and I might add through their tax dollars being used to backstop banks and bail out everything under the sun--can't get their unemployment insurance. For that reason alone I'd vote the budget down.