Gerald Keddy on Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1

In the House of Commons on April 8th, 2014. See this statement in context.

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1Government Orders

April 8th, 2014 / 10:45 a.m.

Conservative

Gerald Keddy Conservative South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS

I have a short answer to a long question, Mr. Speaker. There are a number of factors the hon. member mentioned.

First, our advertising budget for this government is significantly less than the advertising budget of the previous government. It is 60% less. Those are real numbers.

Second, the hon. member talked about the bottom 20% of society. There is an extra one million people not paying taxes today because of changes we made to the taxation system. Average Canadian families, as I mentioned before, have $3,400 more in their pockets to spend on the commodities and the issues that are important to them than they had under the previous government.

These are all significant changes brought in by our government.

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