Madam Speaker, I too am delighted to have an opportunity to take part in the debate on the 1999 budget, a budget that will see us into the third millennium.
Given the time available to me, I will not be able to examine the budget in minute detail, nor is that my responsibility. I will merely point out a few items that strike me as important.
Since 1994, individual income taxes have generated the modest sum of $19 billion for the government, and the GST has brought in another $5 billion on top of what the Minister of Finance expected.