Mr. Speaker, the member, along with other of his colleagues, has spent a bit of time talking about surplus and that the existence of a surplus means that Canadians are being overtaxed. I wonder if the member would care to comment on the fact that, to the extent there is a surplus, that surplus is used to pay down debt. Some $65 billion of debt has been paid down at a savings of some $3 billion a year that is available for the permanent funding of tax reductions, new programs or additional funding for health care.
The question really come to this. If the member wants more tax cuts for Canadians, what does he consider to be a substantive tax cut and can it be afforded without going back into deficit?