Madam Speaker, how sad that my friend is perpetrating the shell game.
The government is going to raise payroll taxes through the Canada pension plan by $7.2 billion over the next three years; it is going to raise through bracket creep another $2.7 billion, $9.9 billion. The government is offering $7.7 billion in tax relief. In the end, Canadians are worse off by $2 billion. If they are worse off by $2 billion, I ask my friend from Hamilton how does that leave Canadians better off? If they are paying more money out of their pockets, how are Canadians better off?