Mr. Speaker, Bernice Lee runs a dry cleaning and mending shop in Edmonton while her husband Philip works on the side to help raise their four children.
Despite working from six in the morning until well into the night six days a week, she tells me that she is barely able to hang on. She told me that if it were not for the huge taxes that she has to pay, she could hire some extra help to take the pressure off her family.
Could the finance minister look Bernice Lee in the eyes and tell her why he believes that Ottawa knows better how to spend her money than she does?