Even the Liberal members on the other side are echoing in agreement with me about their high tax policies and how they need to be lowered. In fact, the Minister of Industry just yesterday and last week said that taxes are too high in the country and that taxes need to be lowered to the rate of the American model.
We have the Prime Minister contradicting the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Finance looking both ways, as if at a tennis match, trying to figure out what is going on. The Liberals cannot even figure it out over there. The Minister of Industry has figured it out. Taxes are simply too high and they need to be lowered. There is a debate about that over on that side because they do not want to let go of those dollars. They do not want to provide the tax relief that is necessary to provide the care for families.
I hear the hon. member from Coquitlam chirping away, a man who said he was no yes-man during his byelection campaign yet voted with the government to punish families through high tax policy. He continues to chirp away, as do other members of the Liberal government who are trying to run from the record. Canadians are not going to let them hide any longer, because it is their high tax policy that is putting down a lot of people in the country, keeping them from taking their rightful place by working hard and providing for their families.
It used to be that individuals would work really hard to put some money aside for a second car or for a cottage at the lake. Today, families are working harder and harder to put food on the table and provide clothing and shelter for their families.
In conclusion, I simply say to my Liberal colleagues across the way, who seem to be deaf to the voices of their own constituents and Canadians across the country, that substantial tax relief is necessary to provide relief to Canadian families. We would have hoped to have seen that in Bill C-71, but, alas, the government continues to punish Canadians with high taxes.