Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for all the great work that she does in her riding of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing.
Small and medium-sized businesses are the major drivers in my community of Sudbury and I am sure in communities right across the country.
We have the world's best mining supply and services cluster that employs 17,000 people. Right now, unfortunately because of the strike, many of these places are reducing their workforce. These people are unable to then contribute to the economy. Even small businesses have to reduce. We are not seeing anything in place here to actually help small businesses, but the big five banks and the oil companies are getting all the breaks right now.
Page 176 of the budget, table 4.2.4, talks about personal income tax today are about $126 billion and corporate taxes are around $26 billion. By 2014, that number will be five times more, $150 billion for personal income taxes, with about $30 billion for corporate income taxes.
Families are paying for the government's ideology and corporations are paying less and less, making more money to give to their friends and to their CEOs.