Mr. Speaker, since the depths of the recession, our economy has created 1.2 million net new jobs.
Small businesses have been very clear that high payroll taxes are job killers. That is precisely what the NDP wants to impose on small business.
Let me also add that we listen to and we believe in small businesses. Apparently the NDP does not. It wants to raise their taxes. It wants to raise payroll taxes. This is a job killer and precisely the opposite of what is needed for the economy.