Mr. Speaker, I have heard members on the government's side and from other parties talk about the different kinds of situations in which people raise children today.
I think that is reality. I am the first to congratulate parents who raise their children in all these various types of situations, from a single parent to any other imaginable situation. I congratulate them for raising their children under what is often less than ideal circumstances.
When members opposite comment on this, do they believe that the ideal situation in which to raise children is to have them in a home where there is one male and one female parent? If they believe that is the ideal, is it not at least a laudable goal of government to try to accommodate that ideal? I am not saying to try to promote that ideal. I am just saying to try to accommodate it at least in law. That is a question I would appreciate all members on the government side who speak on the bill to answer.
Does the member for Fraser Valley East believe that the bill helps accommodate what I believe is an ideal situation? Others may feel differently about the mom, dad and kids scenario, but has the government tried to accommodate the situation I see as ideal in the tax laws? It is certainly not the only acceptable situation, not reality in many cases, but the ideal. Has the government through the various legislation the member has seen come before the House tried to accommodate that ideal?