Mr. Speaker, I guess the member for Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam was making too much noise for the hon. member to really understand what I was saying.
We are talking about total household incomes. The money comes into only one place, whether it is earned by one parent or two in that family. The family on one side of the street happen to have two parents working with a total household income of $40,000. The family living on the other side of the street, the Smith Family, have only one parent working but also have a total household income of $40,000. No family is making more money than the other.
The Liberals do not understand that the disposable income left in the hands of the $40,000 one income family after the taxman gets hold of the paycheque is about $3,500 less to buy shoes for the kids, to put food on the table, to buy clothes and school supplies and to send their kids to what little recreation they are able to afford. That is the tax discrimination I was talking about. I do not know why the member did not understand that. There is no difference in household income.
The difference is the discrimination that comes when the tax man comes a-calling on their gross paycheque. Why should this family, when they have one parent at home but the same income as the other one, be dinged an extra $3,500 or so, simply because they have made sacrifices to have one parent at home to help full time in the guidance of bringing up the children? Who can argue against that? Only the Liberals can.