Mr. Speaker, in 1993 in Wild Rose the campaign was hot and heavy. "We will scrap, we will kill, we will abolish the GST", were the words I heard.
I am pleased to see a front line minister speaking to this issue. I also noticed that another front line minister, the former minister of revenue who is now the Minister of Transport, made a prediction in a Victoria newspaper where he said that voters will punish any provincial government that fails to merge its sales tax with a revamped goods and services tax. If that be the case, then why in Prince Edward Island, where the Liberals were pushing for this merger of taxes, were they so soundly defeated?