Mr. Speaker, income splitting is a terrible policy. Even the former finance minister disagreed with it.
The C.D. Howe Institute has found that this measure is too expensive, unfair and will benefit the wealthiest tax payers. What is more, it will act as a deterrent to women's participation in the workforce.
The parliamentary secretary knows full well that the only group that came to the Standing Committee on Finance to propose income splitting was the very right-wing Institute of Marriage and Family.
Why is the government so dead set on proposing income splitting, an expensive policy that will accentuate the inequalities between rich and poor, men and women?