Mr. Speaker, the hon. member raises a very important problem. If actions are any indication of the future budget, let me indicate what we have already done. In the last budget we took 400,000 of the lowest income Canadian taxpayers right off the tax rolls. Over the last two budgets we introduced the child tax benefit, starting at $850 million and doubling it in the last budget for our biggest expenditure on a social program aimed at helping the poorest working families. That is our record.
In the House of Commons on February 15th, 1999. See this statement in context.