Mr. Speaker, in previous budgets we already began to reduce taxes. Let me say let us not engage ourselves in the kind of shell game the Reform would play.
The Reform Party at the federal level says “Let us cut taxes”. How would it do that? It would be by cutting equalization payments.
What is the answer? The member for Selkirk said “Let the province of Manitoba increase its taxes to compensate”. That is a shell game. It is dishonest and we will not do it.