Mr. Speaker, the taxpayers are not impressed.
I have a copy of a bill from a Saskatchewan farmer who recently bought $531 of gasoline for his farm. When provincial sales tax, federal excise taxes and GST were added, his bill came to $1,137. That is more than $600 in taxes. In other words, the taxes were almost $100 more than the gasoline, and the government says it is helping the farmers.
The farmer asks, why is the government so good at collecting taxes and so bad at cutting them?