Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that last night they loved each other and today the romance is over. What happened?
My question is for the Minister of Finance. Promising to scrap the GST was one of the major campaign strategies used by the Liberal Party during the last election to get elected. Canadians heard about their people and heard about their plan, but what about their promises?
With Parliament recessing for the summer, can the finance minister explain to all taxpayers without referring to the red book and without blaming the separatists, simply put, how his party can promise to kill a tax and then turn around at the same time and keep it under another name and still hold a straight face?