Madam Speaker, the member for St. John's West should know that to be liked, appreciated and respected a tax must be simple and fair.
How could she explain to Canadians as a whole that this tax is fair when her government is going to take close to $1 billion of taxpayers' money to buy, to conclude a political deal with three provinces who, it appears, could but benefit from teaming up with this new government which was has been in power for two and a half years already?
Hardly 12 months ago, this same government paid $1.6 billion directly to western grain producers when the Crow rate was abolished. This time, it is going to spend $1 billion to compensate a small portion of the Canadian population who will pay less in provincial sales tax and GST.
Does she believe this tax is fair and simple while Liberal members when they were in opposition were dead against-