Mr. Speaker, in the budget last week the finance minister said the government was working very hard to replace the federal sales tax. The federal sales tax is the government's new synonym for the GST and replace is the new word for abolish, kill or scrap.
Creative writing is one thing but people in Canada thought they were voting in a government, not a thesaurus. Words have to mean the same thing. Replace means replace. Scrap means scrap, kill or abolish.
These people across the way have clearly broken their election promise time after time. Why will the finance minister not simply admit the government has no intention of scrapping, killing or abolishing the GST?