Mr. Speaker, I want to first of all congratulate and commend my hon. colleague for her very relevant remarks on this budget.
She mentioned the gap widening between the rich and the poor. She talked about how this budget affects those who are most in need.
A small community in my riding of Halifax West, a black community called Upper Hammonds Plains, is adjacent to a large water supply which is the water supply for Halifax and Dartmouth. The water supply runs right past this community. In fact, land was taken from this community to make this water supply available.
These people do not get water. Seniors, young people, people within the community cannot get water unless they pay an astronomical price to hook up. Yet this budget could have resolved that kind of problem by putting money into an infrastructure program that would enable a project to go ahead to give water to this community.
This is another example of how this budget has not really dealt with the very real problems of people within communities that are necessary to be dealt with in order for people to progress.
Would the hon. member agree that programs of this nature should have been included in the budget programs aiming at the homeless, seniors, young people and so forth?