Mr. Speaker, for years it has been a mystery to Canadian families why the tax system discriminates against those who make the sacrifice of forgoing a second income to have a parent stay home and raise the children but now, lo and behold, we have found the government's answer.
It believes families that decide to keep a parent at home to raise the kids are not working. Let me tell the secretary of state that stay at home parents work harder than many people who are generating income and they deserve recognition in the tax code.
How can the government continue to justify a tax system that tells stay at home parents they are second class citizens?