Mr. Speaker, in advance of the budget, various trial balloons advocating selective tax cuts and grants were floated. It sounds suspiciously like the old return to the trickle down economic school of thinking.
I want to tell the Minister of Finance that Canadians are sick and tired of being trickled on. I want to ask him a serious question. Will there be enough in the budget to give hope to hardworking Canadians who have recently lost their jobs, lost their businesses, lost their farms, lost their livelihoods, or will they have to wait for the trickle down to occur before anything in terms of hope returns?