Mr. Speaker, today is tax freedom day in the United States. That is the day you stop working to pay the government and start working to pay yourself. In Canada our tax freedom is delayed until late in June.
Why are our taxes so high? Even after the Liberals slashed health care, pillaged pension funds and gutted the EI system so that hardly anyone qualifies, we are still paying through the nose. This is their balanced approach. Pay more, get less.
Reformers believe that when Canadians spend more money on taxes than they do on shelter and food, tax dollars should at least be spent wisely. But when we question the finance minister's priorities, instead of answering he asks where Reform would find the money to cut taxes.
We would start by cutting most of the heritage department. For what would Canada do without funding for blond joke books and porno movies? What a tragic milestone for the 60th anniversary of the National Film Board: Bubbles Galore , award winner of the Freakzone International Festival of Trash Cinema. Need I say more?