Mr. Speaker, I thank the member very much for that pertinent question.
I can tell the House what we do know. We know that the NDP is planning a brand new social program, even though this is on top of the $12 billion the federal government transfers to the provinces each year out of the Canada social transfer. We know that it is on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government spends on affordable housing and homelessness each and every year. We know that the estimates of the cost of this program would be $5.5 billion.
That is equivalent to a one-point hike in the GST. We cannot allow that to pass.