Mr. Speaker, as the member knows, the finance minister said in his speech on the budget that balancing the nation's books will not come at the expense of pensioners or by raising taxes on hard-working Canadians. That simply is not true.
We have a situation where employment insurance premiums will be going up 9%. The chief government whip said that we have to keep the EI fund balanced.
The government is also imposing a 31.5% tax on income trusts. That is a tax, yet the government says it is not raising taxes. That will hurt pensioners.
The government is also imposing a travellers tax, which the chief government whip said today is just a user fee, not a tax. Canadians understand what a tax is. It is money out of their pockets at a time when they can least afford it.
Does the hon. member believe that the government has not demonstrated accountability and that we cannot believe what the government members say?