Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
The government has not tried to stop speculation that RRSPs may be taxed starting with the next federal budget. The Minister of Finance himself fuels the uncertainty about this possibility that some observers call reactionary, outrageous and odious.
Does the Minister of Finance not agree that by fuelling the uncertainty about the future of RRSPs, he makes it much harder for thousands of middle-class taxpayers to make the extremely important retirement-planning decisions required at this time of year?