Madam Speaker, during the election, we had 12 community debates in my riding of Kootenay—Columbia. In every one of them, the Liberal candidate talked about how the Liberal Party, if elected, would lower the small business tax rate from 11% to 9%.
Small businesses make up almost 95% of the businesses in Canada and are very important in my riding and across Canada.
I would like to ask the member, what happened to that promise? Should a promise made during an election not be kept once a party is actually in government?