Mr. Speaker, policies like the textbook tax credit are regressive and are not going to solve the students' problems. They now are sitting with an average debt of $24,000 on their shoulders. How did it come about?
In the mid-1990s when the Liberals cut the transfer payments, and we all know about that, they transferred the debt to the shoulders of our students, yet the government has absolutely no plan. It talks about the fiscal imbalance. What about the personal fiscal imbalance that our students are facing now? Why will the Prime Minister not come forward with a plan to restore the funding levels to pre-Liberal levels? That is what we need.