Mr. Speaker, giving the money to Kathleen Wynne to spend does not make it revenue neutral.
Today, at the human resources committee, a Stats Canada official admitted that any policy that raises food and fuel prices pushes more people below the poverty line. That makes sense. Poor households spend a third more of their income on those items than do rich households, yet ESDC officials admitted at the same committee meeting that the Prime Minister has not even directed his government to conduct a study on the impacts on the poor of this new tax.
How can the Prime Minister impose such a regressive and large new tax without—