--who refused to listen to these witnesses.
In any event, I have some questions. I found what you said very interesting, Mr. Lee, about the fact that when corporate taxes are actually in place, corporations look to recoup those taxes, either by doing what you've already indicated--raising consumer prices--or by affecting workers' wages. So although the Liberal Party wants to raise the corporate tax from the 16.5% that it's at right now, and they want to raise it immediately to 18%.... That's what they've indicated, and if they don't see it in the budget, they're going to vote against our budget and launch us into an unnecessary election. I want you to tell me how that affects our families, because they're claiming they need to raise corporate taxes by $6 billion to help families.
Well, if consumers and workers are the ones affected, as you say, by the increase of corporate taxes, tell me how that is going to hurt our families, our moms who are shopping for their kids, and the workers who are trying to make ends meet for their families? How is that going to hurt our families?