Madam Speaker, Canadians gave us a clear, strong mandate. They want us to respect the money they make and the money we receive in taxes, and they want us to spend it very wisely.
The best way to fight poverty is to get Canadians working. Our government is doing just that. We have created 600,000 new jobs since July 2009.
Our government is reaching out to help families across the country, especially those in need. That is one of the reasons that we introduced the universal child care benefit and we increased the national child benefit.
Those are all initiatives aimed to help low income families get over the welfare wall, just like the WITB that we introduced and then increased.
Every action we have taken has been to help Canadians and their families become independent and help them contribute to their economy and their community.
Sadly, the NDP voted against every one of those initiatives to help vulnerable families.