Mr. Speaker, the finance minister says that it is the provinces' fault that sales taxes are going up.
The government started pushing for this tax hike in 2006. The finance minister told the C.D. Howe Institute that he would be pressuring “the remaining provinces that have not harmonized their PST with the GST to work with us”. That is a direct quote.
The finance minister's signature is the first one on the deals. He is dangling $5.9 billion in front of the provinces to try to convince them to come in the door.
The paternity test is in. How can the Prime Minister--