Mr. Speaker, in March the Minister of Finance indicated that this would not happen unless the areas of differences in the harmonization details were resolved. However, he subsequently said that he would be willing to provide $2.6 billion of compensation if Quebec fully harmonized its sales taxes, and he suggested that this would include two major steps. The first was to stop applying the provincial sales tax on top of the GST, the tax on the tax. The second was to allow the Canada Revenue Agency, not Revenue Quebec, to collect both taxes.
If that is the conditions under which the finance minister is prepared to provide compensation of $2.6 billion, would those two conditions be acceptable to the Bloc Québécois?