We have reduced the level of taxation according to a plan that is available to all governments in Canada. The plan is a national one to cure a national problem. I did not go into hiding. I said that it was not an easy decision. But smuggling will stop in Canada. If the provinces feel that they do not have a problem, they will have to live with the consequences of their actions. Every government was aware of what we wanted to do. We were all losing billions of dollars as a result of that. Therefore this government decided to act.
If other governments want to avoid the problem, fine, they will have to accept the consequences. They were elected and they have to do their job. It will be up to the people of Ontario to ask the question of the Ontario government, not me.