Mr. Speaker, income splitting does provide fairness. It gives the same treatment in households where one spouse earns more than the other as it does to a household where the two spouses earn the same amount of money.
The Liberals are opposed in principle to all forms of income splitting. That is why they voted against pension splitting when it was first brought in. It is why their former leader openly opposed it and has not retracted that. Now they expect, on the eve of an election, that seniors are going to believe them when they claim that they have changed their mind. Seniors are smarter than that. They will not trust the Liberals. They will not be tricked.