Madam Speaker, I have two questions. It will only take several moments to ask them.
I really appreciated the member's plea for more tax reduction and increasing the personal exemption to $10,000. I wholeheartedly agree with that. We desperately need that kind of help for especially low income Canadians.
The question I have relates to that in the sense that the government has put in place a child care credit or tax reduction that applies only for those who use care outside of the home. I think this is a gross injustice. I cannot agree with it.
My concern is that this child care credit should apply to all parents. They should not be forced to take their children outside of the home. I was wondering if the member would agree.
The second question is in regard to agriculture. He made a big point about agriculture and the fact that it was not addressed in this budget. I agree with him. In fact agriculture will be devastated by what this government has done.
In just one example, the CPP premium increase is going to hit all Canadians but farmers are going to find that the price of their produce, the things they have to put in, their input costs into their crops and whatever, are going to increase because of the CPP premium increase. It is going to add to all of their costs, as it will for all Canadians.
I am wondering if he would agree that we need tax reduction, especially in the area of agriculture. I know there needs to be improvements to infrastructure, transportation and all this but the tax increases, I hope he would agree, that have been implemented by this government are going to hit agriculture very hard.