Mr. Speaker, excuse me while I take one minute to be provincial.
The premier of Ontario is proving daily that balancing a budget and instituting tax cuts at the same time creates chaos and doublespeak.
Later this week I will be delivering thousands of individual petitions, addressed to His Excellency the Governor General, calling for an election in Ontario now. When something like Bill 160, ominously called the education quality improvement act, takes $1.6 billion out of education and this is called an improvement, something has to give. In this case parents will give: money for pencils, books, school equipment, bussing. The list goes on and on.
If well educated people represent our future, someone should advise Mr. Harris that education does not improve when the system is fiscally dead.