Mr. Speaker, I want to stress that these kinds of tax breaks are going to affect the middle class, the working class and those who are already living well below the liveable wage. When we see the items that are to be taxed, it will affect everyone.
However, let me go over the kind of numbers we are talking about, which is $7.8 billion over the next five years. Then if we look at the actual increase, in 2013-14 it is $500 million and it increases to $2.3 billion annually by 2017-18. Therefore, out of this what we are looking at is a total of $7.8 billion of tax burden on maybe the most vulnerable, the working class and the middle class who are already struggling to make ends meet. How can this not be a tax increase?