Madam Speaker, I listened enthusiastically to the member's statement. I was in the lobby for part of it. Then I came into the House and listened to the rest here. It is interesting to hear the New Zealand experience. It is important to express that time and time again.
It is really interesting to see how this whole business of harmonization came about. I want to put this to the member for North Vancouver to address. It is a series of defaults on the part of the Liberal government that led up to this point of harmonization.
The Liberal government was put into a corner, if you will. It started out in part by the heritage minister when she was forced to resign and seek re-election at a cost of over $500,000 to the taxpayer. It is all over this GST issue.
The second point is the finance minister publicly begged forgiveness in his statement "we made a mistake for misleading Canadians on the Liberal GST policy".
Then there was another row when the member for York South-Weston resigned. I should say he was banished from the Liberal caucus. Then the member for Broadview-Greenwood temporarily went into self-exile. All this happened over the GST issue.
I would like to put this forward to the member and seek his comments.