Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I was intrigued by Mr. Rochon's comment earlier, when he talked about an economic model that could measure the stimulus of tax reductions. On that note, I wonder whether or not that model has an ability also to look at the opposite of stimulus, in the sense of tax hikes. I'd like to delve into that just a little bit.
On June 10, 1991, a certain federal politician said “Taxes have to rise; there is no other way”, in the Kingston Whig Standard. That politician went on to say on June 15, 2006, to the Globe and Mail: “We've also got to have popular, practical, believable policies that may involve some form of carbon tax.”
That federal politician then went on, on December 18, 2008, in a City TV news interview, to say “I'm not going to take a GST hike off the table.” He then went on to say on April 14, 2009, just a few days ago, to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, “We will have to raise taxes.”
Just to give you one last indication, this individual also, on November 20, 2004, to the Toronto Star, described himself as “a tax-and-spend Pearsonian Trudeau Liberal”.
That individual is none other than the scheming Liberal, Dr. Michael Ignatieff. What I'm wondering is what your thought is about when he will raise taxes, which taxes he will raise, how much he will raise them by, and if not those questions, then what Liberal hidden agenda to birth some foreign tax monster that has never been seen before in Canada will be unleashed on us.
Sir?