Mr. Speaker, I certainly do agree with the hon. member that there are times when one should cite the province of Ontario. On the GST let me simply cite the premier of Ontario.
He said in 1994 that in terms of GST the manufacturers and the businesses in Ontario would save over a billion dollars by being able to deduct these costs they could not deduct at that time on the sales tax in Ontario. He also said it has been one of those areas of major competitive disadvantage that Ontario manufacturers have had. He went on to say that Ontario businesses have had it.
I repeated this last week but perhaps the hon. member forgot. The premier of Ontario said: "Stop the rhetoric, stop the politics, stop the finger pointing, get on with harmonization and simplification of the GST". That is what he said and he was right.