Mr. Speaker, this web of deception coming from the government now covers Atlantic Canada as well. In addition, it involves provincial Liberal governments.
The cost to this government in terms of its credibility is mounting, not to mention the $1 billion it tacked on in out of control debt.
Would the finance minister please explain to us beleaguered taxpayers listening from coast to coast why he considers it good financial planning to spend another $1 billion of their money to rearrange a tax, simply to bail this government out of an election promise it had not intended to keep in the first place?