Mr. Chair, I have said repeatedly, and a number of times this very evening, that our family tax program will overwhelmingly benefit low- and middle-income Canadians. Twenty-five per cent of the benefits will go to families earning less than $30,000 a year. We estimate that almost $10 billion in 2015-16, or one-half of 1% of GDP, will be returned to families and invested in the economy over the coming months.
This, again, not only is our philosophical difference, because the opposition believes that money earned by hard-working Canadians is, by right, the government's, but it does not seem to understand the benefit of having money retained in the private sector for economic growth.