Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the previous member's speech. Unfortunately I find it is full of the same general platitudes of how well small business can do and how competitive it is. I asked the same question of the previous speaker as I did once before. How do we
expect small business to be competitive in this international environment when it is loaded down with $38,000, each and every one of them, of federal debt that has to be paid through higher taxes and so on?
The member for Fraser Valley East talked about the fact that this government is picking individual people and handing them all kinds of tax dollars, tax free at the same time. Everybody else has to pick up the cost for these things. How does he justify these two items when he is saying that small business is so competitive and should get on with the business of creating jobs?
Would it not be far better to stop this nonsense of being selective and giving money to individual firms and individual people? Would it not be better also that we get rid of this deficit and this burgeoning national debt that is dragging small business down under the water?