Madam Speaker, I wish to ask the hon. member who is a well known, famous, most competent tax lawyer whether during the deliberations of the Liberal Party of which he is an influential member, he ever advised his colleagues that it would not be possible to get rid of the GST.
Was he totally unaware of the difficulties which exist in harmonizing and doing all the other things that we had proposed? Did he warn his colleagues about this? Was he ignorant about it? Did he just say it to himself and not tell them? Was he simply rejected? How could a distinguished tax lawyer, with as much influence as he has, get his party to accept a resolution which any informed tax lawyer would have known could not be kept?