Madam Speaker, I would like to come back to two specific points in my colleague's speech.
She talked about the $250 cheque that would go out to those making up to $150,000 in net income, as she said. In Quebec, that is roughly equivalent to $270,000 a year. The government is going to go further into debt to send cheques to these people, and yet it is excluding people with no employment income, who are often the most vulnerable. Seniors and people with disabilities come to mind.
I would also like her to comment on the two-month GST break that excludes nearly all basic expenses for the most vulnerable households, such as taxes on heating, electricity, telephone and Internet. As everyone knows, groceries and rent are already tax-free.
Would it not have been wiser to simply double the GST rebate to target those who really need it?