Mr. Speaker, the Chair will know I have the highest respect for my hon. colleague from Calgary Southeast. I too took a course in logic but in second year university.
Will the member tell us why he does not see a valid distinction between lowering the tax rate for middle and low income Canadians in the tax forms and attempting to lower tax through the excise tax? An oil company might well simply put it in its pocket or a local retailer might not reduce the price by the amount of the reduction that the federal government made.