Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his question. The Liberal government has contributed to the impoverishment of Canadians, but by a different means than my friend suggests. High taxes have caused many people to be in a situation where they cannot hire the number of people they would like to hire and therefore people without skills, traditionally people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale, cannot benefit.
We see it through bracket creep, where people at the lowest end of the income scale are the ones who are punished the most by this insidious tax that passes every year without a vote in the House of Commons. We see it also through the homeless situation, where because of high taxes and excessive regulation the stock of rental housing has not increased. That hurts the homeless people immeasurably.
There are many ways that the Liberal government has hurt people on the low end of the income scale and I have recounted them.