Madam Speaker, I have a very brief question, and I hope the answer will be equally brief.
I listened to my colleague, the member for London West, speak of her pride in being associated with such a bill. I would like to ask her what about this bill she is proud of. First of all, it is costing Canadians $1 billion in political compensation for a political agreement, when Quebec had already gone ahead with harmonization at no cost to the federal government.
Second, how can she be proud of her government, when the promise that it made-and that was part of the reason it won the election-was to scrap the GST, not to conceal it in the price, not to conclude harmonization agreements with the maritimes at a cost of $1 billion?