Mr. Speaker, the GST issue has come to a head.
During the election the Liberals campaigned up and down streets promising that if they were elected the GST would meet its end. That was then, this is now.
I want the finance minister to make something very clear for Canadians and for the House. Was it his position that when they were campaigning on doorsteps around the country they were telling Canadians that if elected they would spend $1 billion to permanently weld into place the most hated tax in Canadian history by integrating it with the sales taxes of the Atlantic provinces? Is that what he expects Canadians to believe?