Mr. Speaker, I do not think the member was listening. I am not talking about increasing taxes. I never used those words at all.
I want a fair taxation system where people pay taxes on their ability to pay according to their wealth. We do not have a fair taxation system. There has been a narrowing of the tax rate where the wealthier people have been getting bigger and bigger breaks all the time.
We have to increase the wealth in Canada, create jobs, stimulate the economy. Investing $10 billion in the economy in terms of stimulating jobs, creates $1.6 billion worth of growth. Much of that money comes back to the federal government in terms of taxes, with fewer people on unemployment insurance and fewer people on welfare.
It is the kind of thing that the Bush administration is doing in the United States, for goodness sake. A right wing republican government is stimulating the economy trying to create jobs, not just in the cleanup of Manhattan and not just in the war effort. I mentioned the farm bill as one example of that, $173 billion. People should realize what kind of money that is; $173 billion U.S. over 10 years and the stimulus that it has in terms of the farm economy. One could go on and on.
I look at the motion before the House. It is there for anybody to see. There are six points in the Alliance motion, six priorities. I assume when it lists six points, those are its six priorities. Do I see agriculture in there? No. There is no reference to the farm crisis, no reference to agriculture, no reference whatsoever to rural Canada. That is the evidence. In the six points of the Alliance Party there is not one word, not one mention of the farm crisis or building up rural Canada and rural infrastructure. I say shame on the Alliance, but at least we know where that party stands.