Absolutely not, Mr. Speaker. I would, however, like to correct the figures the member has given.
For the last fiscal year, 1998-99, the surplus is not $2.9 billion but over $9 billion. However, the Minister of Finance took $6 billion away during that same fiscal year, unexpectedly, and applied that amount to the debt right away.
Point one, situations can be corrected and so they should be. The public finances must be put on a healthier footing, but when that is done at the expense of one category of taxpayers and the others are left to profit unduly from the taxation system, and by that I mean the people with the highest incomes, something is not working right.
We do not have to correct problems by creating injustice and by maintaining that particular injustice. It is all very well but the ones who have had to pay are the people earning between $25,000 and $70,000 a year; those are the families that have borne the brunt of it.
People with incomes of $250,000 and up have not had to pay. Point two, millionaires like the Minister of Finance have not had to pay either. Point three, tax reform has been talked about since 1996. Ideas had even been submitted to the Minister of Finance and he applauded these suggestions. Since then, he has been standing there with his hands in his pockets. He is looking out for himself first and foremost, but he has done nothing as far as the tax system is concerned.