Madam Speaker, I congratulate the member on an excellent speech. In the short time he has been here he has helped restore the riding of Brampton—Springdale to a place that has an MP it can really count on. He has also been a successful business person.
Would the member comment on the proposals we are hearing from both opposition parties with respect to: massively increasing taxes on businesses; running massive deficits; their confusion with respect to our economic agenda going forward and whether they like tax cuts or actually want to put more money in the pockets of Canadians?
Previous Liberal governments always felt it was better for the government to spend money rather than for Canadians to spend money on their families and their businesses.
Would the member comment specifically on how the disastrous proposals of the opposition would affect small business people and job creation?