Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. Despite a healthier economy and rising tax revenues, the federal government, like the pre-
vious Conservative government, is preparing to add to the tax burden of all Canadians, because it has shown itself totally unable to reduce federal spending, to eliminate unjustified tax privileges like the ones for family trusts and to take whatever measures are needed to collect more than $6 billion in unpaid taxes.
Will the Prime Minister acknowledge that, instead of introducing a surtax that could jeopardize the economic recovery, he should have the courage to end duplication, waste and inequities in the tax system?