Mr. Speaker, by removing the tax credit on the GST, the finance minister has raised the purchase price of all used goods bought by ordinary Canadians while quietly reaping a huge tax windfall for his own coffers.
Car dealers, auctioneers, people who sell used furniture and used clothing, virtually anybody employed in the used goods sector, will be under pressure. They tell us that bankruptcies and lay-offs are imminent.
Can the finance minister tell the House if it is his intention to use this silent tax windfall financed from the pockets of ordinary Canadians to pay for his billion dollar pay-off to Atlantic premiers?