Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance likely knows that people on social assistance do not get the benefits of that child tax benefit. The provinces claw it back. He knows that benefit is not a great deal.
My supplementary question regards a comment written in the red book which I suspect he had something to with. It reads, “The introduction of the hated GST has compounded unfairness and complexity. The GST has undermined public confidence in the fairness of the tax system”.
Rather than come in with this array of tax changes that really benefited some very wealthy people and did nothing for those who need it the most, why did the Minister of Finance not reduce the GST even by one point—