Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to congratulate my colleague from Brome—Missisquoi for his speech, which was really enlightening in terms of the motion before us. I would like to give the member the opportunity to elaborate on the gap or the differences between provinces regarding harmonization.
I would also like to know what he thinks about the following. It seems to me that the federal government, in this matter with Quebec, has enjoyed a certain privilege because Quebec was the first province, in the early 1990s, to harmonize its tax with the federal GST.
Today, Quebec is penalized, on the one hand, regardless of the efforts it made in the past and, on the other hand, because the Minister of Finance, every time he talks about negotiating, changes the terms of this harmonization. I would like to hear the member's thoughts on that.