Mr. Speaker, today our government releases economic action plan 2013. Our economic action plan would create jobs, economic growth and long-term prosperity. There are no more sleeps. The wait is over, and I cannot wait to hear from the world's greatest finance minister and my former boss, Canada's Minister of Finance.
However, I already do know that one thing our economic action plan would not do is hit Canadian families with an NDP job-killing $20 billion carbon tax that would increase the cost of gas, groceries, electricity and everything else.
Unlike the New Democrats, who would hit Canadians with increased taxes, our Conservative government has cut taxes 140 times, putting an average of $3,000 back in the pockets of Canadian families. The NDP leader can try to run from his job-killing carbon tax, but he cannot hide. Canadians know that from our Conservative government they would get a low-tax plan for jobs and growth, and from the NDP leader they would get a job-killing $20 billion carbon tax.