Mr. Speaker, while gasoline prices are hitting everyone hard, the Minister of Finance, with all the money at his disposal, has let taxpayers down and has not included anything to help them.
Since one of the components of the price of gasoline is an excise tax of 1.5ยข per litre to fight the deficit, and since there is no longer a deficit, why did the Minister of Finance not remove that tax? Had he done so, he would have helped all Canadians.