Mr. Speaker, actually we should be doing the math because Manitoba has just slightly over a million people. What the throne speech of November 30 in Manitoba says is that HST would have imposed more than $400 million in new sales tax costs on Manitoba families.
That is with one million people. If we multiply that by eight million people or more that has to be in the $4 billion or $5 billion range. We can do the math, but it is a huge number. That is what Manitoba is giving up by not going along with this system.
The member from Edmonton pointed out that Manitoba residents, my constituents, will actually be subsidizing this process. The federal government is basically bribing the provinces with $4.3 billion for Ontario--