Madam Speaker, I listened very attentively to my colleague from Hull—Aylmer and to his presentation on the main estimates.
I have two questions. He spoke about financial capacity, but the government refuses time and again to implement a wealth tax, even though Canadian billionaires saw their wealth grow by $80 billion during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the government is preparing to reduce the Canada emergency response benefit, or CERB, from $500 per week to $300 per week in the coming weeks. I know that in my colleague's riding and in ridings across the country, there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who depend on the CERB. It is a contradiction to reject a wealth tax and, at the same time, to reduce the CERB for the average Canadian who really needs this emergency assistance.