Mr. Speaker, I do not think the NDP has ever shirked from coming up with an alternative approach. Number one in our position has always been that the tax system in Canada is unfair. We do not believe we need to totally tax the horribly rich and everybody else does not want to pay their fair share.
Canadians want to pay their fair share for education, for health, for transportation, for social programs. What they do not want to pay for are things like an unfair tax system when one of Canada's supposedly finest, an Order of Canada recipient, transferred to relatives or turned over his assets into cash. The process involved more than just houses, cottages, mortgages, small commercial investments and condominium lots. Eagleson has also been selling furniture for many years. He collected valuable antiques for his office, depreciating them by 20% each year and then, when they were no longer deemed worth anything on paper, moving them into his homes. The Eaglesons furnished their Rosedale houses from 1976 to 1997. They have owned three pieces of English Gregorian mahogany furniture which were described by one of the experts as being high quality for Toronto.
What we are asking for is a fair system. All Canadians should pay fairly.
In Thompson recently the new tax changes on a $1,500 bursary—