After his eloquent speech in which he criticized the Liberal majority report, a disgraceful report that sets out to mislead Quebecers and Canadians, I want to stress the outstanding work done by the hon. member for Témiscamingue, and also by the hon. member for Charlevoix, on the finance committee and in developing our own position, which is the only valid one at the present time, the only possible basis for negotiating with the provinces, since the biggest provinces have rejected the Liberal majority report out of hand.
Although the hon. member for Témiscamingue mentioned this briefly, it made me wonder when the parliamentary secretary said earlier that we were the only country in the world with ten different tax systems, perhaps I may remind him that the Liberal majority's proposal would introduce not only a GST but also a business transfer tax. We already have two tax systems, which, multiplied by ten different rates, ten rates that are different from one province to the next, will make us the only country in the world with a Liberal majority that proposes having twenty different tax systems instead of ten. So much for improvements.
Again, I wish to commend my colleagues on their excellent work in developing the position taken by the Bloc Quebecois.