Mr. Speaker, it is certainly not surprising to hear my hon. colleague say that the NDP did not vote for the budget that concerned itself with G8 and G20 summit expenses. That is not surprising because the NDP has not voted in favour of any initiative this government has brought forward in a budgetary sense.
It is well known that because of the tax cuts implemented by our government, the average Canadian family has benefited from over $3,000 in tax savings over the course of our administration. Did the NDP members vote for those tax cuts? No they did not.
The NDP has one and only one agenda and that is to tax more and spend more. That is a direction this government will never follow.