Mr. Speaker, the government thinks that helping people and cutting debt and taxes are opposites. What Canadians are telling the government is that these things go hand in hand.
The government taxes the poor more heavily than either the Americans or the British, so broad based tax relief helps the poor, including poor children.
The $45 billion a year the government is paying on interest eats the heart out of social programs, so debt reduction helps social programs.
How long will it take the government to understand that debt reduction and tax relief are—