Mr. Speaker, let me say how surprised I am at the vehemence with which the minister attacks the Conservatives, since his budget is identical to the one they presented. It is a budget which no Conservative still in that party-and there are fewer and fewer of them-would renounce today.
I must say that I find something profoundly indecent in this budget, since the Minister of Finance is an accomplice of fiscal unfairness. On the one hand, he takes more than $5 billion over three years from the poorest people, and on the other, he lets the wealthiest people in this country put billions into family trusts and earn income from them without paying tax.
I ask the minister, who voted with us in the Bloc Quebecois last year against the extension of this undue privilege, to tell us how he can preach fiscal fairness today when he supports such a double standard policy.