Mr. Speaker, October 1993 was a significant time for all Canadians. It was when a majority of Canadians elected a Liberal government after nine years of the Tories.
The Liberals promised this and they promised that. At every campaign meeting Liberal candidates would be waving their red book, saying a Liberal government would fulfil all its promises and put the country back on its feet.
Historically the Conservatives are known as the Tories and the Liberals are known as the Grits. With respect to the GST and all of the governance in fact that we have ever had from this country it is Grit or Tory, same old story.
Canadians elected the Liberal government because it promised to scrap, kill and abolish the GST. Now we have Bill C-70 which is not about scrapping the GST but about harmonizing it.
In the 1993 election campaign the Liberals were desperately searching for that one hot button item to woo the voters. They found it. It was the GST. When a Liberal candidate spoke about getting rid of the GST they always received a positive reaction from the audience. Unfortunately-