The discussions I have had with the Minister of Finance in Quebec, Mr. Bachand, most recently last week, are an effort on his part and mine, on behalf of our governments, to see whether we can come to an agreement about how we could achieve full harmonization of the sales tax of Quebec and the GST of Canada, in a harmonized way similar to what is being accomplished with Ontario and British Columbia. Our officials are continuing the discussions, further to the discussion the minister and I had last week.
On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.