Mr. Speaker, it is not only that the debt is too high. The taxes are too high. A single mother with one child earning $15,000 a year is paying $1,300 in taxes to that finance minister. A family of four with an income of $32,000 a year is paying $3,000 a year in taxes to that finance minister. The government has saddled us with the highest personal income tax in the industrial world.
Will the prime minister listen to the groans, curses and protests of overtaxed Canadians and offer tax relief targets for 1998?