Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the statement of the member from the Bloc with regard to the GST and the harmonized sales tax in particular. He seemed to have a great deal of difficulty dealing with the business portion and how businesses in Canada would be far better off under the HST than what they presently are under the GST.
It would almost lead one to assume that the member is anti-business. How can you say that when businesses will have to deal with only one sales tax? There will be one sales tax rather a federal and a provincial tax? How can you be against that? Is that not to the benefit of businesses? Of course it is. It will reduce the costs of
businesses. Their costs today are far higher than what they will be under the HST.
If you look at the participating provinces that have already agreed to the HST, these businesses we already know are far better off under this system than the provinces that have not signed up.
What does the member have against businesses and trying to help businesses in every province in this Canada, not just in Quebec? Quebec is a province in Canada.