Mr. Speaker, the finance minister, whom I have considerable respect for, knows that is a lot of nonsense. He knows that what we are talking about here is the discriminatory impact of the child care tax deduction which says that people who pay someone else to raise their kids get to claim a $7,000 deduction, while those who give up a second income get to claim precisely zero.
Yesterday the minister for the status of women said that single income families are actually ahead of double income families. Does she not recognize the opportunity costs, the forgone income and the lower standard of living of single income families who do what they think is best by their families?
Will this government tell the finance committee to increase the up—