Mr. Speaker, the finance minister said that he has dealt with the tax on gas. He has done that by raising the excise tax by a cent and a half supposedly to eliminate the deficit which is gone. He has done it by soaking gas consumers with the GST tax on tax.
The Liberals had a committee in 1998 which said the government should stop the double taxation on gasoline. Even its own members do not want to charge tax on tax through the GST.
In the middle of a gas crisis, why does the finance minister continue to impose double taxation on consumers at the pump?