Yet your new spending amount this year is three and a half times the amount that you are attempting to find in this single fiscal year alone.
Minister, I'm afraid I disagree with you relative to your position about your government having a debt crisis. I think your government absolutely has a debt crisis, and I think it's evident by the fact that your Prime Minister has spent more than any other Prime Minister in history.
In fact, your government has spent so much that you had to bring in this job-killing tax. This is a tax that affects Canadians far beyond what your Prime Minister has claimed, what your Deputy Prime Minister has claimed and, I believe, what you're claiming here today. It hurts farmers, health care workers and small businesses. I know that the Deputy Prime Minister has said that this will only affect 0.13%.
Given that confident statement by the Deputy Prime Minister, will you, as the President of the Treasury Board, the individual who's responsible for all of the spending, since I do believe this is a spending problem that has brought your government to bring in this job-killing tax, commit today, on behalf of your government, to bring an amendment to the capital gains tax ensuring that the 99.87% of Canadians that your government says are not affected by this tax will not be impacted.
Will you make that commitment to bring in that amendment today?