It is. If you got out of Montreal, you would learn some regional expressions.
I wonder if the minister would not be more proud of his Minister of Finance if he bought his ships at home. He would create jobs and if he registered them here, he would pay taxes here.
On the subject of compensation to the three maritime provinces that signed on, and that were penalized because they lowered their
sales tax by five per cent, why do you not leave them where they are at right now? They are already paying 19 or 20 per cent. You are making them a gift; they will be paying less tax. I am the one who is going to compensate their governments, innocent that I am.
The governments of the maritime provinces would rather have a big provincial sales tax and less income tax. That is their choice. It is not up to us to meddle in the way a province is administered, as my colleague for Chicoutimi pointed out. He talked of respect for provinces and jurisdictions. We will respect them.
In 1991, when Quebec harmonized its sales tax, the QST, with the GST, you did not give us one red cent. We do the collecting and we split the cost fifty-fifty. It costs you $88 million a year.
In the maritimes, Ottawa will pay the whole shot. Strange idea of fairness in this party and this government. What did you do when dairy subsidies were cut over five years? It will mean an average of $8,000 per farm. You, a fine representative of Quebec-