39th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION
EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 38
CONTENTS
Monday, January 28, 2008

The Economy

Mr. Ed Komarnicki (Souris—Moose Mountain, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, real leadership on the economy is what Canadians are looking for. What is the Liberal Party offering? Nothing, other than increased taxes and deficit spending.

The Liberal leader sees tax cuts, like the GST, as “a serious mistake”. The Liberal finance critic openly muses about raising the GST. All this while making promise after costly promise that would send Canada spiralling into deficit. What do we expect from a Liberal leader who owes nearly a whopping $900,000 in leadership campaign debt? That is not leadership.

Leadership is precisely what is required at this time. We said we would allow Canadians to keep more of their hard earned dollars, and we did.

We said we would cut the GST from 7% to 6% to 5% and we did. We said we would lower the lowest income tax rate to 15% and we did.

We provided $190 billion in tax relief for individuals, families and businesses while at the same time making record payments to reduce Canada's debt.

More money in your pocket and fewer Liberals in your wallet is the kind of leadership Canadians want and this Conservative government is delivering.