Mr. Speaker, we heard earlier from the Secretary of State for International Financial Institutions the specious claim that the government claims to be taking 600,000 people off the tax rolls through tax policy changes in this budget. But he seems to have forgotten in his new Liberal math that 1.2 million taxpayers were added to the tax rolls since 1993 because of bracket creep and that another 300,000 will be added back on in the next two years as a result of bracket creep.
How does he come up with this specious figure when in fact 900,000 people will be paying taxes in 2001 who were not when this government came to power?