Mr. Speaker, I am sure the hon. member for Medicine Hat is pleased with that and the fact that his appointment as critic has scared off the foreign affairs minister.
For this minister to raise the GST is really something special. This is from the government that was going to scrap, kill and abolish the GST. This is the same government that told us in a report that it would “consider removing the GST from other taxes and apply it only to the wholesale price for gasoline in the retailer margin”. That is what the liberal caucus report said two years ago. There has been no action on that to this date.
Why will the Prime Minister not allow a free vote so his members can represent their constituents when we bring forward a motion to end the double taxation of gasoline later this week?