Mr. Speaker, here we have the Tories calling upon the government to reduce the excise tax on fuels. Let us just look at what they did when they were in office. Between 1983-84 and 1993 they raised the excise tax on gasoline not once, not twice but six times. They not only introduced the excise tax on diesel fuel but they then raised it twice.
That party was in power for nine years and raised the excise tax on fuels nine times. Would it be out of order to call it hypocritical when it calls for a tax cut like that?