Mr. Speaker, the premise of the member's question underlies the point that divorce and the courts are really a way to accept responsibility for children.
I ask the member to look very carefully that within marriage itself and within the responsibility parents have for their children, that responsibility has to be first and foremost, not looking at the legal system and the taxation system as the way and the means to bring about resolution to the responsibility parents have to support their children.
It is also interesting that Reform members look at the budget, a budget that contains so much, a budget that speaks to so many issues, and focus on the negative aspects. Instead they should pull from it some of the things we need as Canadians, as a community and as legislators to work together and to move issues ahead.
The budget provides the parameters. The legislation that will follow and the support through the taxation system will help confront the social problems that face us. We must focus on the problem of poverty among youth and among children, rather than seek to redress to every ill through the taxation system.