Mr. Speaker, along with the language of progressivity, it speaks again to what I said before about the contortions taken to distort a position of a political party.
Single rate tax is not a flat tax. There is a big difference. There is also a big difference between $47.1 billion in tax relief which is what is actually happening, not $100 billion in tax relief. He is not factoring in the Canada pension plan. This is what Canadians do not understand.
He made reference to the previous member for my constituency and said he missed him. The 70% of people in the riding who did not vote for him sure do not miss him.
This speaks to Liberal math. It is not $100 billion in tax relief. It is $47 billion. There is a bottom line net amount. The net amount is not good enough. Young Canadians are still leaving the country. Businesses are still closing down. Provinces are not better off. The welfare state gets larger and larger.
Frankly, I would like to see a lot of government departments have smaller budgets.