Mr. Speaker, the question from my colleague from Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River is a very relevant one. It speaks to the issue we are dealing with in this motion, and that is providing the provinces the opportunity to change their taxation system because they have chosen to do that.
We chose to reduce taxes for Canadians in all the budgets we have put forward. In fact, up to this year, we have reduced taxes by $220 billion. To put it into perspective, for an average family of four, we have reduced its taxes over $3,000 a year. Those are taxes that have not been sent to Ottawa. This money has been left in the pockets of families to help them better weather this worldwide economic recession.