Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question from the hon. member from Yorkton—Melville.
The first question with respect to day care, what we believe in and obviously with the basic personal income tax exemption of $10,000, we believe that sufficient dollars would then come back into those individual's pockets who best know how to spend their dollars, and in fact would allow them more dollars to have day care for their individuals, whether it be in the home or whether it be in licensed day centres.
However, back to agriculture, I could not agree more, particularly with the CPP. If you are in fact a small business or a self-employed individual, the contributions to CPP are twice as much as what they would be if you had employer contributions.
Agriculturalists, farmers, obviously are going to be impacted quite dramatically by this. It takes a substantial amount of cash out of their own personal pockets to put into a CPP plan which I am still not convinced, and have not been convinced by government, is going to be there when in fact those individuals are going to recover some of their investment from it in benefits.
I agree, we agree, small business, personal income tax deductions and small business tax, regressive payroll taxes should be reduced, as by example in Manitoba and fortunately the member from Winnipeg suggests that we should be looking at Manitoba as being a benefactor from the federal government. The fact is that Manitoba has benefited because of these types of reductions to regressive payroll taxes.