Mr. Speaker, I listened very closely to the member and he said that there is no limit to the taxing powers of any province. Who but a Liberal could say that? Think about it. There is no limit.
He is here trying to confuse the public, and I might say members of Parliament, on this nonsense of vertical and horizontal fiscal imbalance. Try to figure that one out. There is no logic to that argument at all. This is typical Liberal double-talk.
Double-talk coming from that side of the House is not an unparliamentary expression. It is a word that is acceptable in this place, simply because there is so much of it going on over there. We have become used to that kind of double-talk. That is exactly what this whole issue is about.
The Prime Minister, in the middle of an election, where the bottom had fallen out of his campaign, simply trotted across the country from one end to the other making any promise he had to. What was the reason? It was to stay in power and to win more seats, to sit at 24 Sussex Drive at the expense of anyone else, including the Canadian public.
This is the kind of nonsense that we get from a member of Parliament, who obviously as an individual is a very bright guy. However, imagine a man with that intelligence coming to this place singing from the Prime Minister's songbook. It is just unbelievable. He might as well go home and start knocking on doors.