Mr. Speaker, recently Ali Mouallem, a constituent from Slave Lake Alberta, whose parents immigrated to canada, shared his frustration with the Liberal tax hikes. He writes:
My dad was 55 years old before he started writing cheques to himself.
Before that, he struggled as an entrepreneur. He paid the government, he paid the bank, he paid his landlord, he paid the utilities, he paid his suppliers, he paid his staff and rarely paid himself.
When there wasn't enough money left at the end of the month to pay his staff, he asked my mother to work and he picked up more and more shifts. They both worked long hours and work didn't get better....
My parents sacrificed everything in their life. Their family, their money, their time, their health, their house, and their relationships for a better future.
Our lives changed, when we opened a small pizza place 15 years ago. Finally, they were able to pay themselves and even put some money away to reinvest in our community. My parents finally had a retirement plan.
Now...the Liberals want to penalize my parents for their life's work. [They] even accuse them of taking advantage of tax loopholes....
This doesn't sound fair to me.
There is nothing fair about the Liberals' fair tax proposal.