Mr. Speaker, I would like to correct the misperception that the Conservatives normally have.
They increased the income tax in budget 2006 from 15% to 15.5%, and that is the biggest problem with the Conservatives. They do not know math. They have been the worst economic managers. They created billions of dollars in debt. They made us a third world country.
If we go from 15.5% to 15%, and come back to the Liberal rate, which was the rate for low income families, the Conservatives have done nothing. In fact, they decreased the personal exemption and they have now increased it back to what the budget was in 2005.
It is critically important to eliminate this shell game because that is what women are watching. They are not stupid. They know exactly what the Conservatives are doing.
In terms of social housing, they eliminated the social housing program. They eliminated funding to any social programs. They cut $1 billion.
I do not know which book the member is reading, but he should really reread the budget and do a comparison on budgets before making statements like that.