Mr. Speaker, perhaps the hon. member was not here for the last budget, but after we had eliminated the $42 billion deficit we immediately began to proceed to reduce taxes by $7 billion over the next three years. Four hundred thousand taxpayers have been eliminated from the tax rolls.
We very much hope that we can continue to do this.
Let there be no doubt about it, tax reduction is an important priority for this government, but, unlike the opposition, so is health care, so is education, so is research and development and so is the basic social fabric of the country.