Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. Following his pre-budgetary consultations across Canada and after talking about broadening the tax base, the Minister of Finance identified certain measures that the government could take to increase its revenues. These included lowering the ceiling on RRSP contributions, eliminating the $100,000 capital gains exemption, reducing the scope of old age pensions, taxing health care and dental care premiums paid by employers, in short, initiatives that affect the middle class which has been reeling since 1984 under the Canadian tax system.
Can the minister tell us clearly and frankly if he intends to follow through on all of these initiatives?