Mr. Speaker, when the Liberal Party was in opposition, it denounced the GST and promised to abolish it once in office. Indeed, the red book included the commitment to replace this tax. Now the report of the Liberals on the finance committee which was made public yesterday shows that the government has decided not only to maintain the GST but to hide it, and confirmed its intention to apply it to other goods and services, thus taxing consumers more.
After promising during the election campaign to abolish the GST and repeating on May 2 that he would kill this tax, how can the Prime Minister have the nerve today to maintain the GST by hiding it and moreover how can he consider extending it to medicine, health care and food?