Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the tough question. It is a broken promise which we could add to the long list of broken promises on taxation.
My friend mentioned the notional input credit. The removal of the notional input tax credit would mean that people would have to pay more for used books. Another broken promise is that the government was to get rid of the GST on reading material. It did not do that even though it promised to in a letter from the Prime Minister to the Don't Tax Reading Coalition and in a number of policy conventions. In many respects the government is penalizing people who read, which is flying completely in the face of what it said it would do.
My hon. friend has it right. The government has broken promises on the taxation issue and to people it thought would support it on the basis of its promise not to tax reading materials.