Mr. Speaker, the candor of my colleague for Madawaska-Victoria amazes me. She spoke of an announced fiscal reform.
I do not know if it has already been announced, but it has not been announced very loudly since the present Liberal government came to power. Maybe it was announced in the red book, but there has been nothing more than promises since then.
But I am happy to learn, for example, that the GST will be abolished. I heard it would be on January 1, 1996; according to a few items in the papers just before Easter, the government announced it would not be on January 1, 1996, but maybe sometime in 1997, 1998 or 1999. This promised reform is probably similar to the promise made when the tax on income was introduced during the war. It was supposed to be only temporary. That is what they said. Since the reform was announced, I hope my colleague for Madawaska-Victoria's wish, which is shared by all Canadians, will be fulfilled and that the much abhorred GST will be abolished one day. But I am not sure that we will still be around to see it happen.