July 21, 1988 (33rd Parliament, 2nd Session)

Mr. Benjamin:

And we have farmers losing farms and fishermen losing their boats and little storekeepers going broke. These high earning guys have tax benefits, preferred stock options that are non-taxable. They have tax dividend credits. The president of the one corporation I know makes
$4,000 a day. That is more money than 90 per cent of Canadians make in one, two or three months. Do not talk to me about private enterprise, free enterprise and market forces when you allow that kind of an unfair system to prevail. It is so patently unfair.
This Government said it would do something. The Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) in the television debate, after the Hon. Member for Oshawa (Mr. Broadbent), our Leader, raised the subject about tax fairness and tax reform, said: "You are right, Ed". That was four years ago. The Hon. Member for Oshawa is still right and the Prime Minister is still wrong. We still do not have tax reform. We have nothing but the juggling of the books. I will keep talking until you cut me off, Mr. Speaker. Do you want to do it now?