Mr. Speaker, my question for the member across the way concerns the GST.
His solution now is to harmonize the GST. We are going to have the polls closing in Nova Scotia in about 55 minutes and one of the issues down there was the harmonized GST. I predict we are going to see the NDP rock and roll tonight and increase its seats massively in the province of Nova Scotia. We will see that in about an hour and a half.
I want to ask the member to answer very precisely a very precise question. Was it a mistake on behalf of his party in 1993 to go across this country and promise to abolish the GST? We saw what the deputy Prime Minister did. She resigned her seat and faced a byelection.
Was it a mistake? Does he feel guilty about it? Does he feel badly about the fact that they told the Canadian people one thing and are now doing something else?
Was it a mistake to promise to abolish the GST and then to—