Mr. Speaker, that means yes, the government is going to raise taxes.
This is about the credibility of the government. A year ago the Prime Minister promised we would never run a deficit. Now we are in the largest one in history and it began before the recession even began. Yesterday, Dale Orr said that the Conservative increase in EI premiums, a whopping $15.5 billion, is a tax on workers and employers.
Will the Prime Minister admit that his way out of his own deficit is to raise taxes and to do so in such a way that it kills jobs?