Mr. Speaker, in about three minutes I will formally move adjournment of the budget debate until tomorrow. Before doing so I would like to thank the Minister of Finance for his speech and also for the improvement in his vocabulary. After much tutoring from the opposition he has finally learned how to say tax relief.
Using the words tax relief and delivering tax relief are two different things. If we cut through all the verbiage and the spin doctoring, if we cut through the shell game that announces modest tax reductions with great fanfare but says nothing about all the other federal taxes that are inexorably taking more money from the pockets of Canadians, if we cut through the inflated announcements about $11 billion in health care spending but forget to talk about the $20 billion in health care cuts that have been taken—