Mr. Speaker, while the Reformers are counting up how many promises the Liberals have broken over the GST and the Liberals are counting how many times Reformers have changed their minds on the GST, New Democrats are counting up how much the Liberal expanded GST will cost ordinary Canadians.
The new Liberal tax is one more burden taken off the shoulders of corporations and put on to the shoulders of ordinary taxpayers.
In Saskatchewan the finance minister estimates that harmonization would cost average families $400 million because they would have to pick up the share of the provincial retail taxes now paid by business.
As a result of all of this, Canada is now tied with Britain as the two countries with the lowest corporate taxes in the G-7. The Liberals have, in fact, kept one promise on the GST. They have kept their promise to Canada's corporate leaders to protect them from any obligation to fulfil their civic responsibility to pay their fair share of taxes.