I don't want to tread on the Minister of Finance's territory. The one thing I would point out, however, is that the structure of the GST, being a value-added tax, is actually a good structure as far as the manufacturing sector is concerned. It would actually be very helpful in the province of Ontario if the structure of the Ontario sales tax was the same as the structure of the federal one. It would be very helpful for the manufacturing sector because it would relieve the sector of a number of taxes on its inputs.
On May 30th, 2006. See this statement in context.