Mr. Speaker, I think one only descends to personal attacks when one has nothing better to say, which is what we have seen happen far too often.
What the member himself said about the government's tax fairness plan is “It was absolutely the right thing”. However, if he does not want to listen to himself, maybe he wants to listen to the former deputy prime minister of the Liberal Party who said that reversing the income trust decision would:
--run afoul of espoused Liberal principles, by promoting a tax loophole for a select few, financed by the rest of us. As finance minister, [the member for Wascana] was warned that tax revenue losses on income trusts were too great to ignore.
I think the Liberal Party should show a little honesty about this difficult issue.