Mr. Speaker, I would be curious if the last member could extemporaneously tell us what he said. That would be very useful.
Today the Bloc moved an amendment to delay for six months the creation of this great big new taxation agency which was created by the Liberal government. I have three or four concerns about it which is why I support the amendment before the House today.
The Liberal government is setting up a taxation agency to collect GST, income taxes and corporate taxes. The provinces can buy in. They can collect the provincial sales tax, the liquor tax, eventually municipal taxes and so on. It is a radical departure from the existing practice of the Department of National Revenue collecting taxes in this country.
I have three or four concerns about that. My first concern is that this is supposed to be a federal-provincial agency. A good friend of mine, a minister from Edmonton, is in the House today. He is concerned about federal-provincial relations. I wonder if he could tell the House today which provinces have bought into the idea of a new taxation agency. My impression is that the answer would be none. Not a single province has bought into this agency—