Madam Speaker, the member is right on one thing: we had a vision. We were the first ones, in 1990, to harmonize our tax without expecting anything in return. Speaking of shortfall, we feel it is only fair to receive compensation. A loss of $500 million on inputs is a lot of money for Quebec businesses.
If they want to argue over numbers, let us talk numbers. Let us talk numbers before a committee where there will an expert designated by your government. There will be an expert from Quebec and both experts will designate a third one so we can have a non-partisan committee addressing all these issues.