Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. The Toronto Dominion Bank released a study yesterday that said that personal incomes in this country are now 26% lower than in the United States. It also said that much of the damage was done due to government layoffs and cutbacks between 1993 and 1997 which cost us 180,000 jobs. Guess who was Minister of Finance during those years?
Besides cutting taxes for his wealthy friends and his buddies like Conrad Black, what is the Minister of Finance going to do to help increase the disposable income of the ordinary Canadian in this country? I know he is very close to Conrad Black but what about—