Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Finance. We listened carefully last week to the Minister's budget address. On page nine there is a list of things that are not going to happen, no increases to personal income taxes, no increases to the one per cent payroll tax, no increases to fuel taxes and so on. There's a whole list of things that aren't going to be taxed. In fact, he only announced one tax change, the two per cent increase on corporate income over $200,000.

He mentions in his budget that we're going to lose $2 million but he also says that there will be no increase of the tax burden this year because of the negative impact on individual persons and the economy. My question to the Minister is, since he knew all about the federal initiatives before this budget was prepared, why wasn't the tax initiative that is being discussed today and that was discussed yesterday included in this budget?