Mr. Speaker, two kinds of questions occur in the House.
Very rarely, a member of the opposition will stand up and ask for a point of information, genuinely seeking an answer. There are other types of questions in which members of the opposition engage in political rhetoric, normally with a long preamble. They are not seeking information but seeking to make a point.
We are used to the second kind of question. Normally when the member asks that kind of question, explicit or implicit in the preamble is the fact that the opposition wants to attack the government on a point of substance.
Does the Reform Party support what the government is doing in terms of harmonization or not? Does the Reform Party still believe as it said it did in the finance committee report: "We commend the government in its attempt to harmonize the tax with the provinces".
Does the Reform Party still believe that it is simply unacceptable that Canada remain the only country in the world with 10 different sales tax regimes? Where does it stand? Is Reform for harmonization or against it?