Mr. Speaker, this summer when the Liberals were out making election promises they swore that any budget surplus would be split 50:50, half would go to new Liberal spending programs naturally, and the other half would actually go back into taxpayers' pockets or to debt retirement.
But now that the Liberals are back in power they have changed their tune. They used to sing The Taxman by the Beatles, now they have changed to another one entitled Hey, Big Spender .
When the government spends $42,000 on a musical study entitled “The Social Origins of the Medieval Latin Lyrical Song,” why should ordinary Canadians believe that the government will ever be able to give Canadians the tax relief they deserve?