Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, sir, on your appointment to the Chair. You look great.
I appreciate the comments that have been made but I wanted to raise a question about the throne speech opening up a pathway to prosperity.
The difficulty I see in my riding is that I talk to elderly people who are having to sell their homes because of clawbacks. They have small incomes and they cannot afford to pay the taxes. Youth cannot get enough money for education. Men and women are losing established jobs from established companies and those jobs are not being replaced.
I see nothing in this throne speech which would offer hope to these people. Is there some mechanism which the Liberal government has in mind to guarantee that taxes will not be raised and to give Canadians relief from the taxation which is killing us economically and destroying the social fabric of the lives of so many families?