Mr. Speaker, the GST went way over the course of the mandate of the last Parliament. The Prime Minister went on TV in 1993 and said that he would scrap the GST. He later broke that promise. It was on videotape, though. That was the unfortunate part for the Prime Minister. Then in 1997 he went on national TV and said that he would spend half the surplus on tax and debt relief “once the budget has been balanced”.
Let me ask the Prime Minister why he always make these promises, breaks these promises and gets trapped by the truth.