Madam Speaker, the member repeated the numbers the leader of the Conservative Party said about the differential between Canada and the U.S. in terms of the average income.
The member did not mention that in Canada we have a different income tax system. The computations are different. We have things that are outside the Income Tax Act whereas they are not similar in the U.S., for example the child tax benefit, the GST credit and our health care system alone. He used the example that a family making $80,000 a year in the United States would have $7,000 more of disposable income than a similar family in Canada.
I would like to ask the member if he can tell this House exactly how much that family in the U.S. then has to pay for health care and social security that Canadians do not have to pay for.