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DISSENTING REPORT

FROM HER MAJESTY’S LOYAL OPPOSITION

Conservative Members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance propose the following dissenting report:

Government spending is growing at an unsustainable pace. The deficit is 100% bigger than the governing party promised in the last election. The tax burden, particularly on low- and middle-income people, has risen. This burden is the unavoidable consequence of fast-growing expenditures.

Conservatives thus propose that:

  • the government cancel any and all unnecessary spending increases;
  • the government cancel any and all tax increases, including but not limited to, those imposed on diabetics, autistic people, and others to whom the government has suddenly denied the Disability Tax Credit;
  • the government cancel proposed tax increases on local businesses and family farmers;
  • the government publicly commit to the date on which it will balance the budget and meet that commitment through discipline and restraint;
  • the Finance Minister has wrongly characterized small business people as wealthy tax cheats, held shares in a company that he regulates, sold shares a week before introducing tax increases that may have reduced stock prices, introduced a pension bill that can reasonably be seen to affect his pension company, and failed to answer basic questions about his policies and conduct, and he should resign;
  • the government should cancel any and all corporate welfare programs that primarily help the wealthy and influential at the expense of everyone else; and
  • the government should emphasize free markets and free enterprise as the greatest hope to eliminate poverty and expand opportunity for everyone.