Mr. Speaker, the finance minister knows full well the Reform Party would reduce taxes by $2,000 for the average family of four. That is the Reform Party platform. We do not know what the government wants to do.
Low income people in Canada are taxed at a higher rate than in any other country in the G-7. Low income people. That is the government's version of compassion.
I want to know again, and this is for Alice Straeleff who is watching today, where is the balance in forcing someone like Alice to pay $800 and mortgage her mobile home to pay his taxman?