Mr. Speaker, first, would the hon. member admit that the percentage of Canadian families living below the low-income cutoff line, typically referred to as the “poverty line”, is the lowest level ever?
Would he admit that the percentage of Canadian children living below that so-called poverty line is at its lowest level ever?
Would he indicate whether he has read the Luxembourg Income Study in The New York Times indicating that Canada now has the highest median family income of any developed country in the world?
Finally, in his constituency, Victoria, I know there is a disproportionately large number of seniors, pensioners, some of them with relatively high incomes, above the average. Will he maintain our policy of income splitting for those seniors, including the high income ones in his constituency? Or will his class warfare apply to the high income seniors who are benefiting from pension splitting, under the current government?