Mr. Speaker, New Democrats opposed the imposition of the GST and a New Democrat government in Saskatchewan cancelled the HST that was brought in by Conservatives in that province.
The combined debt of Canadian households is $1.4 trillion. That is a record.
Things are going from bad to worse for families.
Statistics show that for every dollar of disposable income, households have $1.45 of debt.
Adding a harmonized sales tax to all of that would be a huge mistake.
Why does the government want to add the HST—