Madam Speaker, I congratulate the member. I also want to tell her that our party will support her solidly on this motion. It is a stand that we should all take collectively, as the member opposite just said, for people who cannot be here to stand up for themselves. Unfortunately many people cannot even stand. We hear of a number of people being told that if they can walk 150 feet they will not get a disability tax credit. One of my friends told me that if someone would put on his shoes he probably could walk 150 miles with his crutches.
It is extremely hard to believe that we would try to take back from deserving people a minuscule amount that is so helpful to them but so little in relation to a budget, especially a budget that is administered by a department that brags about having an almost $40 billion surplus. It is unbelievable. That surplus is being built up on the backs of such people who have worked so hard to make a living so they can pay taxes at extreme expense to themselves, above and beyond what the rest of us face. With the little break that they get we are trying to withdraw it.
It is terrible that the government would even think about such a thing. I congratulate the member again. I hope that the whole House will stand behind her in an effort to get the department to wake up and treat people the way they should be treated.