Mr. Speaker, like the Bloc Quebecois in February, the Barreau du Québec and the Canadian Bar Association have criticized the Minister of Finance for wanting to retroactively amend the provisions of the Excise Tax Act, thus rendering invalid a number of judgments in favour of school boards, with respect to the GST.
How can the government be so lacking in decency as to seek to retroactively invalidate the agreements it once negotiated with the school boards, agreements that had been approved by the courts, thus giving them the value of a res judicata, a matter already judged?