I certainly wouldn't disagree with anything either Grace-Edward or Cathy has said. What I would add is that Canadian tax policy over the last 20 years has consistently moved in a direction of reducing the tax burden on the top 20% of the population and decreasing the quality of life of the bottom 20% of the population. When we have a situation where that top 20% is doing substantially better and that bottom 20% is doing demonstrably worse, there needs to be a rejigging of the tax system so that there is a degree of equity brought back into it and so that the government's capacity to deliver the kinds of programs that all Canadians need is not eroded in the way that it has been over the last two decades.
On June 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.