In fact, in Conservative party advertising, the message was that if the Liberals were elected, they could do an about-face on this matter. Is this not in itself an admission by the Conservative party that the measures in the budget have no permanent effect and that a permanent solution will have to be found, whether it is a transfer of tax points or some other way of transferring federal revenue to the provinces? Should we not be making a real change rather than just paying out money? Should we not be changing our way of doing business?
On May 16th, 2007. See this statement in context.