Mr. Speaker, we see the Conservatives are getting increasingly agitated because they know that folks back home, senior citizens and people on fixed income who are trying to acquire savings, are calling on us to keep this going because they want scrutiny over this bill.
In terms of the credibility of the Conservative Party on taxes, I would use one word, “Mulroney”. Mulroney brought in the GST. Mulroney was the most hated prime minister in Canadian history. The entire party was booted out. The Canadian people forgot because they saw so much corruption by the Liberals.
Now what do we see? The first thing Conservatives do is go from the GST to the HST. They are trying to put across to Canadians that they are somehow their friends. They are not. We have seen the largest shift of taxation in Canadian history from corporations to senior citizens to people on fixed income. I would ask my hon. colleague, why does she think it is that they are afraid to hear from senior citizens, real estate agents and all the people who will be affected by this regressive Mulroney style—