Mr. Speaker, I am on the Standing Committee on Finance with my colleague from Kings—Hants, and I would not want to leave out an important point, which is that the Conservatives blame the provincial governments for income inequality.
If the motion states that it is the federal Liberal and Conservative governments, that is because the Liberal government reduced spending in the 1990s by 40% for transfers like the Canada social transfer, which includes health care and social assistance.
I know that my colleague was not there, but the Liberal government at the time must take responsibility, which is why it is included in the motion.
However, when he spoke about common ground between the Conservatives, the New Democrats and the Liberals in the House on the issue of income inequality, it is clear that in committee the Conservatives denied the perception that we had of income inequality.
Would my colleague like to comment on the findings in the report of the Standing Committee on Finance and also on this perception that the Conservative government has of income inequality, which differs from ours and even from that of the Liberals?