Madam Speaker, I could not help but listen intently to the very informative speech from my hon. colleague.
Out west there is a little parasite. It gets onto human beings and livestock and will suck the lifeblood right out of you. We call it a tick. I often wonder if maybe it got its name from politics, from governments trying to suck the lifeblood out of people through taxation.
We know that basically we work more than six months out of the year just to pay taxes in this country. That means out of every eight hours that a person works, four hours are going to pay taxes in order to keep the governments of our country going.
Does the hon. member think it is fair for the people of this country to work so hard and put in the time that they do to pay over 50% back in taxes to the government to absolutely squander in any way it sees fit without having any input from the taxpayers themselves?