Mr. Speaker, allow me to remind the Prime Minister that, before making petty comments on the official opposition, he should remember that, yesterday, a majority of his constituents voted yes in the referendum.
My question is for the Minister of Finance. During the last federal election campaign, the Liberals, and particularly the Prime Minister, promised to eliminate the GST by January 1996. On March 2, 1994, the Prime Minister again said: "We hate that tax and we will abolish it".
Can the Minister of Finance tell us why, after more than two years in office, he still has not made good on his promise to abolish the GST, and whether or not he intends to fulfill that commitment before January?