Mr. Speaker, generally the member for Rosedale shows less partisan politics and more rigour, as well as weighing his words a little more carefully.
To hear him speak just now, one would have thought we were listening to the Prime Minister defending the fact that he had never made promises. In the debate at hand, they are trying to have people believe that the Bloc members are against harmonization. That is absolutely not what it is all about. What it is about, is that their party made commitments during the election campaign.
One of its commitments was to eliminate the GST, because this was a detestable tax. This is not fabrication on our part, the Prime Minister said so.
The Bloc Quebecois is not against harmonization. I wish to ask him the following question, however: if harmonization of the two taxes in the maritime provinces is so desirable, and so favourable to economic development, why did he have to sweeten the pot to the tune of $961 million to get harmonization?