Mr. Speaker, again the hon. member simply does not seem to get it. In the last budget by raising the threshold by $675 and the $300 million that went into the child tax benefit, the tax burden on Canadian families was substantially reduced.
The basic issue is the Reform Party is saying, and if not would the hon. member explain the contradiction, that it would tax somebody at $25,000 at a higher rate than it would tax somebody at $50,000. That simply does not make any sense. That is why we have a progressive tax—