Mr. Speaker, when the member for Calgary Southwest rose to his feet today he said that he would not be approaching the debate in a partisan way. Therefore I was rather surprised the leader of the Reform Party did not acknowledge the fact that there were no personal tax increases in the budget.
I read the Reform Party's budget. I realize that I cannot show it here because it is inappropriate. It would propose a flat tax idea. As members will know, this is something I personally believed in although I call it the single tax and it has a much more progressive design than the member is proposing.
In the proposal of the leader of the Reform Party for a flat tax it is absolutely inevitable under that system that many Canadians would pay more personal income tax. How does the leader of the Reform Party square that flat tax idea with his statement that there should be no more money taken out of the personal income tax envelope?