Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister made some rather startling remarks this morning. I would like to raise them with a member of the government.
The Prime Minister said that politicians cannot be held to all their election promises, because of what he called acts of God. The Prime Minister added, with regard to his government's failure to settle the GST issue: "Sometimes, in the course of a mandate, you run into situations where you cannot deliver the goods".
My question is for the Prime Minister or whomever speaks on his behalf on this day of crisis for the government. Are we to understand that the Prime Minister is finally admitting that he and his government missed the boat in the matter of the GST and were unable to deliver the goods?