Mr. Speaker, I would have to disagree with the member for Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam. I miss the kind of passion and energy that the previous member from that riding had. I find it strangely ironic that a member would stand up in the House and say that Canadians will not like $100 billion in tax cuts because it is going to complicate things.
I will go back to the flat tax or single rate tax. Of course what it did was shift the burden of tax from high income Canadians to middle income Canadians, and close to the election campaign the Alliance changed it to a 17%, 25% tax. We are not sure where it is going with its single rate tax but I am not sure anybody cares very much.
The member talked about complexity in the income tax system. We might all agree that the Income Tax Act is complex.
However if the Alliance Party were to introduce a flat tax or single rate tax, does that mean that all the various deductions such as RRSP, medical expenses over a certain amount, charitable donations in certain circumstances, et cetera would not apply, or would he simply have Canadians take a number and multiply it by 17 or 25?
A lot of Canadians think that might be the case, but many of the member's colleagues in the House said that it will not be that way. They said we would have all the same deductions because that was what Canadians wanted and expected. Could the member clarify that?