Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for his great work on this file, along with the member for Elgin—Middlesex—London.
I have read Hansard, going back to when the government first introduced the universal child care benefits and the importance of universality at the time. What members said in the 1960s and what we say today is exactly the same thing, and that is every child in Canada deserves to have the support of their government. That is exactly the reason why we chose to introduce universality.
One thing we can take from this budget is the following. In 2006, the Liberals at the time campaigned vigorously against our introduction of the universal child care benefit, going to the point where they said that we could not give money to parents or families because the would spend it on beer and popcorn.
The Liberals have seen the light. Not only have they brought it back, and increased it in some cases, they have taken away universality, which is a great difficulty for a lot of Canadians who simply do not understand that if their family income is $92,000 a year, they will not benefit from any of these new plans.