Mr. Speaker, I have a different proposition for the members opposite. Next election, let them come to the province of British Columbia, let us go onto the hustings, and let us debate in every gymnasium, every auditorium and every household about whether the people in British Columbia want the HST and whether they think it is good policy.
I do not remember anyone on that side of the House bringing up the HST during the last federal election. I do not remember that. I do not think it was in their platform. It was the same thing with respect to their Conservative cousins in the Liberal Party of British Columbia.
This tax has been introduced by stealth. The reason is that they know they have just put a tax increase on working- and middle-class Canadians and they do not have the courage to stand up before those people and acknowledge it--