Madam Speaker, I have a hard time keeping a straight face. When I listen to this member of the official opposition it makes me think that I am watching the film about Sybil. I am not denigrating people who suffer from psychiatric disorders. Sybil suffered from multiple personality disorder, which meant that each individual personality was not aware of what the other one was doing or saying.
Here we have a party which has changed its position regarding GST numerous times, even before 1990, and its members do not seem to remember each individual change. How many times have they changed their position? Let me count the times.
Before 1990 they exploited public opposition to the GST to get two of their members elected to this House. In 1991 the leader of their party reversed that position, saying it would not be repealed because that would increase the deficit, and yet in speeches he gave he talked about applying it to part of the debt.
Anyone with a brain in their head knows that if you apply it to the debt it increases the amount of time the tax would be in force.
Then in 1992 they changed their position again. My God, how many times is that?