Mr. Speaker, this bill would increase taxes on safety deposit boxes, totalling $40 million a year, would put new taxes on credit unions, amounting to $75 million a year, and the list goes on. The good people in my riding do not want the cost of baby carriages to go up 3%, bicycles 4.5%, blankets 5%, ovens, cooking stoves and ranges 3%, plastic school supplies 3.5%, pillows 6% and vacuum cleaners 5%. I have heard from Canadians battling cancer, who must fight their disease every day, that costs of their cosmetic wigs will go up by an astonishing 15.5%. That is absolutely shameful. How is this not a tax?
In the House of Commons on June 3rd, 2013. See this statement in context.