Mr. Speaker, last week the Minister of Finance did not deny that replacing provincial sales taxes and the GST with a new GST hidden in the sales price would involve federal compensation of $1 billion to the Atlantic provinces, to come out of the pockets of all Canadians.
My question is for the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister confirm that the agreement his government is preparing to announce with the Atlantic provinces does not constitute the removal of the GST as he had promised, but an expensive camouflage of a new 15 per cent GST in the price of goods and services?