Mr. Speaker, we need a bring-it-home tax cut. The reality is that rising taxes and increasing delays to approve massive projects have driven half a trillion dollars of investment south of the border. In 10 years, we have gone from The New York Times printing a headline that says, “[Welcome to] Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”, an article in which it stated that Canada's median income was equal to that of the United States, to the present state where the American per capita income is $22,000 higher than ours. This is the worst gap in a century.
This is directly a result of high taxes and heavy burdens on our economy. We will reform and cut taxes with the goal of bringing home production and paycheques to our workers. In other words, let us put Canada first.