Mr. Speaker, I am proposing to put $850 million into tax credits for children next year. We want to make sure that the money the provinces are spending now on child poverty is maintained in the same program because we do not want this money lost in the shuffle. There will be $850 million next year and another $850 million before the end of our term.
In the House of Commons on December 9th, 1997. See this statement in context.