Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague, the parliamentary secretary a question.
Tonight I hear the NDP say, “The sky is falling. The sky is falling. All we want to do is look for tax relief for Canadians”. The only people who are going to believe it are the NDP members. Look up, the sky is not falling. This government is committed to looking out for future tax reductions for Canadians.
I would like to read a quote from the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. It said, “The federal government clearly has done everything it can to reduce tax rates within the boundaries of prudent fiscal management”.
Let us look at some other points that the government has done. The member quoted it in the speech that we “removed almost 950,000 low-income Canadians completely from the tax roll”. He also mentioned, “We reduced the overall tax burden the lowest level in nearly 50 years”.
I would like to hear some clarification on how much tax relief we have done for Canadians this year alone.