He has heard it, but the government does not include $30 billion in tax hikes for Canada pension plan premiums when it does its figuring. Eliminating bracket creep is not a tax cut. It means that we will not have future automatic tax increases. That is not a tax cut.
With regard to the child tax benefit, the government is talking about it as though it were a tax cut. It is a social program by any reasonable definition.
My friend across the way is completely deluded if he thinks that somehow Canadians are going to end up being $58 billion better off because of what the government brought down in the last budget. That is simply not the case.