Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my great colleague, who is a great pancake-flipper when he helps out at my Stampede breakfast every single year. Not only his daughter but his granddaughter lives in my riding.
I will answer his question in a different way, with my own personal experience. I came from small business. We were home builders before this. We were building homes at a time when there was a common-sense Conservative government. We had lower taxes, and we saw an energy industry that was supported, which meant that more houses were being built and more people were moving to Canada. There was more competition, and because more was getting built in this country, there were good, powerful paycheques. What did that do? It helped the small businesses. We used to run an after-school program for at-risk youth. We took zero dollars from any government, because it was funded by small businesses. Small businesses support their communities; they always want to give back. That is why we need to support small businesses.