Mr. Speaker, I was pleased to be able to speak to Group No. 2 and also now to Group No. 3.
In introducing my presentation to Group No. 2, I wanted to point out that these particular amendments to this bill are about a whole larger picture than simply the GST. I wanted to bring it to the attention of Liberal members opposite so that they might be able to recognize some of their past deeds that they committed during the 1993 election.
I talked about when is a promise not really a promise. It was clear that in that case it would not really be a promise if it was a verbal promise made by the Liberal Party even though, as I pointed out, the highest courts in the land have recognized that a verbal promise is and can be and has been deemed to be legally binding. But not to the Liberal government.
I would like to use another phrase now to introduce my comments on Group No. 3 of the amendments. I am drawing a line from an old move called "Love Story" many years ago. The line is "being in love means never having to say you're sorry". I would like to revamp that line and say this to the Liberal members, that telling the truth first means never having to say you're sorry. They might consider that in the next election campaign as they go door to door, coffee shop to coffee shop, meeting to meeting, verbally making election promises to the people of Canada that they know they are not able to keep and will not keep.
This is the very thing that has created the cynicism, the mistrust, the attitude that politicians rank lower on the acceptability scale than the lowest form of occupation we can find in this country because politicians like these people across the House here have partaken in a deception of the Canadian people in the 1993 election. They have verbally promised the Canadian people that they would kill, scrap and abolish the GST. Yes, they did. Evidence shows it over and over again that is exactly what they did and they have the gall to sit here and deny that they did not say it when they have been caught in their own lies.