Mr. Speaker, the most important person to consult in this whole thing is the Canadian taxpayer.
I went back to my riding last week and held town hall meetings all across my riding. I sat down with Canadian taxpayers to whom I give a lot of credit and who have the intelligence to look at this budget and say whether it is really helping them. All I can say in answer to the member's question is that those people have told me that the ordinary average Canadian on the whole feels they are not getting enough tax relief out of this budget. For 27 years they have been paying for these deficit budgets by Liberal and Tory governments and they feel it is time that the government finally rewarded them.