Mr. Speaker, it is somewhat ironic that the motion in essence makes reference to the working poor and yet every time I hear Conservative colleagues speak they talk about the homeless.
I am trying to understand how the motion helps address the homeless issue. The Conservatives are talking about the working poor and about increasing the basic income tax credit to $10,000—it was amended by the Reform Party to something less than that—and the cost of indexing the tax bracket. Collectively they are talking about $28 billion or $30 billion of tax measures over three years.
They keep talking about the homeless in their speeches but their motion makes reference to the tax system. How does the motion assist those individuals who are not working? They are talking about homeless people. They are just making political hay.