Mr. Speaker, if I understood the hon. member correctly, he just said the government is using the GST to help pay off the deficit.
When the Conservatives introduced the GST they said it was to reduce the deficit. They set up a deficit reduction plan.
What we are doing is what his government set up. He is now objecting to it and I can understand why he would object to what his government had set up. But the big difference is that they clucked about it and we eliminated it.