Mr. Speaker, I would like to pick up on a few comments my colleague has made about the question of choices a government makes.
In my riding of Ottawa South, there are 3,250 small businesses. They could have one, five or 50 employees, but they are the backbone of our local economy and the Canadian economy.
I want to ask the member about the choice the government is making about advertising. One of the things I hear from small business owners is how offended they are when they see hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising on TV about some kind of economic action plan, yet their small business taxes are increasing.
Could the member comment on that in terms juxtaposing the government's priorities, self-promotion versus helping to strengthen small businesses?