Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague for his excellent explanations of this bill. Since we are talking about the GST, I would like to ask him a question.
We know that the government decided to reduce the GST from 7% to 6% in July and that it intends to reduce it by another percentage point, to 5%. If, in the context of the fiscal imbalance, the government decided to use this one percent in a comprehensive proposal, does my colleague feel that the government would be reneging on its commitment, thus misleading taxpayers?
In fact, when it made that commitment, we really saw a cash register that showed the reduction to 5%. Would it really be going back on its commitment? By bringing some relief by lowering the GST and by incorporating that into the fiscal imbalance and transfer payments, would it be going back on its commitments?