Mr. Speaker, I came here after the last election so I am new to the House, and the dysfunctionality around this place still boggles my mind.
The budget is huge. I have read most of the estimates which was quite the task.
I could ask the honourable and eloquent member for Outremont about jobs, infrastructure, the environment, natural resources, energy, women, child care, pensions, seniors, et cetera, but I would like to ask him to help me to understand the big picture.
Maybe I do not understand what is going on, but when I look at the budget, I see over the next several years an increase of $50 billion in revenues coming from the average citizen in Canada and an increase of only $10 billion in projected revenues coming from big corporations. I see 9.4% of revenues coming from personal income taxes and only 1.7% coming from corporate income taxes.
Could the hon. member explain to this newbie if this is ideological stupidity or if it is more nefarious than that?