Mr. Speaker, I am sure the hon. member across the way is equally courageous.
When that party was elected it talked about keeping promises. They said they would have a new way of doing politics. They are the worst hecklers in the place. They are the most disruptive people. They got kicked out of the Chamber for bad behaviour and everything else. They talk about breaking promises. They are on thin ice.
Let us talk about the letter given to Rick Anderson's relatives which was brought to the attention of the House by the hon. member when I said that the government would do away with the tax and replace it with something else. I believe that we are replacing the system with one that is harmonized with the province.
I will repeat what it says on page 22: "A Liberal government will replace the GST with a system that generates equal revenues," so it is not a matter of having no tax at all, "equal revenues, is fairer to consumers, a harmonized tax that collects money from consumers once, that is fairer to businesses", it achieves that, "minimizes disruption to small business". It is less disruptive to have one system than two, "and promotes federal-provincial fiscal co-operation and harmonization". That is what we have offered.
So far only four of the ten provinces have joined. It is true to say that Reform MPs approved, and I read from the report of the committee that it was their solution as well. They wanted to replace the system. I read again to them: "We commend the government on its attempt to harmonize the tax with the provinces". "We commend" says the Reform member for Calgary Centre with his usual eloquence. That is precisely what the government proposed.
The members across the way can change their minds five times, ten times or as the health minister said, change their position every single Monday. It will not matter. The Canadian public knows that we live with that promise as we do with all others.
Finally the member accused me and my party of doing exactly what we promised to do on gun control. That is what it means to keep a promise. That is what we would like to do with not only the gun control promise, the GST promise but all other promises as well.