The member wants to talk about bankruptcies. Nobody takes any comfort in the alarmingly high number of personal and corporate bankruptcies in the country. He might want to look at a correlation between the number of personal bankruptcies and the applications of right wing policies. The two go hand in hand. We cannot in one breath decry the number of bankruptcies and in the next keep saying "sock it to them, sock it to them". The two are related.
I remember from grade seven a delightful poem from the old beckoning trail of literature, that blue beckoning trail. It was called "The Big Rock Candy Mountains." The basic thesis of the poem was that everything was free. One of the lines was "prison walls were made of paper and cigarettes grew on trees". I think for the writer cigarettes were supposed to be a kind of morsel to be sought after. The context of the poem was that everything was free, you did not have to pay for anything at all.
My friend from Okanagan-Shuswap said get rid of the tax. Theoretically a government could get rid of all taxes. However, certain consequences would follow. We would not be able to pay the member's salary.