Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll be sharing my time with Mr. Sorbara.
It has been a good conversation today. I'll just mention, first of all, the importance of our working together and understanding each other's timelines in the work we're both trying to accomplish on behalf of Canadians. It is very difficult to give some of these answers in terms of the timelines that we have within our committee, when we have really just a few minutes to get some answers on complicated taxation principles.
One for me, Mr. Sabia, is that the GST is collected as general revenue for the government, and then it goes out as a general expense to the government. In a previous answer you said that sometimes the supplier will have to pay GST, and then that becomes part of their remittance back to the government. It's in a different revenue and expense stream than the levy on a fuel surcharge. The Conservatives will call it a carbon tax. We call it a levy on a surcharge, which goes back to Canadians. Sometimes there is terminology used that confuses the types of information we're trying to get.
Could you maybe comment on the general revenue and general expense on GST versus the program revenue and program expenses that are reported in the public accounts?