Canadians pay too much tax. Under the Liberals, working families and seniors were squeezed while the Liberal government rewarded Liberal insiders and mismanaged our tax dollars.
Under the strong leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Conservatives are cutting taxes to build a better Canada.
The Conservative Record
 | GST cut from 7% to 6%, and now to 5% - that’s a tax cut for all Canadians. |
| Reduced the lowest personal income tax rate to 15% from 15.5% as of January 1, 2007. |
| Created the new Working Income Tax Benefit to help 1.2 million people over the “welfare wall”. |
| Created the new $1,000 Canada Employment Credit to lower taxes for working Canadians. |
| Created the new $2,000 Child Tax Credit amount for every child under 18, a $1.5 billion tax savings for families. |
| Increased the amount all Canadians can earn without paying federal income tax to $9,600 in 2007 and 2008 and to $10,100 in 2009. |
| Enacted the Tax Fairness Plan to provide $1 billion in tax relief for Canadian seniors and pensioners. |
| Delivered new tax credits for public transit, kid’s sports, textbooks, tools, and apprentices. |
| Eliminated income tax on student scholarships, fellowships and bursaries. |
| Cut taxes on small businesses. |
| Ensured fairness for single-earners by ending the marriage penalty. |
| Eliminated the job-killing corporate capital tax. |
| Enacted the “Tax Back Guarantee”- a plan to use interest savings from national debt repayments to reduce personal income taxes, each and every year. |
The Liberal Record
 | Liberals promised to scrap the GST 13 years ago but never did. |
| Instead, Liberals squandered billions of tax dollars on scandals like the Sponsorship Program and failed schemes like the Human Resources boondoggle and the long gun registry. |
| Liberals voted against every tax relief measure put forward by the Conservative government. |
The NDP Record
| The NDP has a long history of opposing tax cuts and making expensive promises that would drive taxes up. |
| The NDP joined the Liberals in voting against every single tax relief measure for Canadians implemented by the new Conservative government. |
The Bloc Record
| The Bloc talks a lot about fiscal balance. But what can they actually do other than talk? With the BLOC, we can’t achieve anything. |
For taxpayers, the choice is clear: strong leadership and lower taxes with the Conservatives or weak leadership and higher taxes with the Liberals.
