Mr. Speaker, I have just said we would have preferred a simpler system, more easily and quickly put in place. This is what the Minister of Finance has said as well.
I am not about to apologize, when I can rise in the House, pick up a text-one I have read here seven or eight times-in which we said the solution was a tax harmonized with the provinces, which would bring in the same revenues, because the government cannot afford to lose revenues right now.
This is just what we told our fellow Canadians we would do. I make no apologies for doing what is in the red book.