Mr. Speaker, another major failure of the Liberal government across the way has been the growing gap between the rich and the poor. After eight long lean Liberal years, Statistics Canada says the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, yet the minister did not even mention equality or poverty in his speech today.
Why did the minister not put some of the money he put on the debt toward narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor? Why not put more money into the war against poverty instead of all $15 billion on the national debt?