Mr. Speaker, the question is who is the gorilla? I strongly suspect it is the Minister of Finance, and I do not like having him in my bedroom.
Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister of Finance if he recognizes that the provinces' negative reaction-he knows that they are against it-to the GST replacement proposed by his Liberal colleagues from whom he seems to be dissociating himself now is a new blow to his government in its relations with the provinces, which have already rejected social program reform, the national health forum and interprovincial trade negotiations.