Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives' income splitting plan is as ill-advised as their inaction on climate change.
It will cost federal and provincial budgets more than $5 billion, and 86% of Canadians will get no benefit from it at all. Economists, analysts and even the former minister of finance have all expressed their opposition to this bad idea.
By providing a tax break worth $5 billion to the most wealthy, the government is going to erode public finances and make our society less just.
How can the minister support such a retrograde measure?