If you are going to come before a parliamentary committee and ask for billions of dollars in spending, it's perfectly reasonable for us to ask you how you're going to pay for it. So your suggestion earlier that our line of questioning had nothing to do with the subject at hand is in fact wrong. We do have the right to ask these questions.
If you're going to take one cent of the GST, there are only two ways to do that. You can raise the GST, which we oppose, or you can use the equivalent amount from general revenues, which also come from taxation. At the end of the day, there's no free money. I'm still waiting for you to explain how we're going to pay for this increase in spending that you're proposing today.