Paul Martin on Taxation

Mr. Speaker, it is very hard to quote a Reform Party report without being unparliamentary. The Reform Party in its statement said “households with similar family structure and income are taxed the same; the family structure is a primary consideration in measuring ability to pay”. The member for Calgary Centre, that is taxing family income. What that says is the Reform Party is against progressive taxation because it is against individual taxation. What the Reform Party is really saying is that we would no longer tax according to ability to pay, we would in fact tax in reverse ability to pay. Reform would tax the poor to—