Mr. Speaker, in 1989 the current finance minister said that he was worried that the government would attack the deficit on the backs of the people who could not afford to bear the burden. Yet a recent survey shows that low income Canadians have been the hardest hit by this government's regressive tax policies. Bank of Canada figures show that Canadians have the highest personal debt ever.
Is the finance minister satisfied that he has helped put this government in the black by putting Canadians in the red?