Mr. Speaker, I am a bon Chrétien. I will easily forgive those words. Yes, there is more tax paid in Canada because there are 1,500,000 Canadians who were not working but who have jobs today because we have provided good government. There are more people paying taxes because the level of unemployment went down from 11.5% to 7.8% last month.
In the House of Commons on February 11th, 1999. See this statement in context.