Mr. Speaker, what Canadians want from coast to coast is equal treatment.
Ralph Klein, the premier of Alberta, has called for equal tax treatment. Even the Prime Minister's little buddy in Alberta, Grant Mitchell, has called for equal treatment. He says: "Albertans expect to have the federal portion of the harmonized tax collected in Alberta reduced to equal the level collected in those provinces".
When will the Prime Minister demonstrate his true commitment to fiscal equality by either lowering the GST for the rest of Canada or trashing this obvious payoff to Atlantic Canadian premiers?