Mr. Speaker, I listened to the Reform member mention the wealth in family trusts and that it would amount to taxing wealth, as if wealth was a concept that applied only to the rich, because we could not care less about the wealth of the poor. Therefore, it is not a problem to tax them, increase their burden, reduce the services provided to them.
My question is this: He knows full well that the Bloc Quebecois has been asking for information on family trusts, that is to say that family trusts should declare their assets, rather than only their revenues. Why is he opposed to the finance minister saying in his next budget: This year, everybody with a family trust will have to declare the assets in the trust. How else can he justify his being opposed to this but to preserve the freedom of those who have family trusts? How could such a measure be catastrophic for these people?