Mr. Speaker, small businesses are middle class, as Stats Canada data demonstrates. The average full-time, self-employed person in Canada earned about $40,000 a year, which is not enough to qualify for the Liberals' so-called middle-class tax plan but apparently enough to pay higher taxes because of this billion-dollar broken promise.
The Liberal government promises that the rate would be 9%; instead, it is 10.5%.
Why has the Liberal government betrayed the middle class with this billion-dollar broken promise to small businesses?