Mr. Speaker, it affects the environment and environmental legislation. It also affects community hockey. What could be worse than an attack on hockey in this country?
As many of the minor hockey associations are realizing, they are going to have to spend tens of thousands of dollars more to access ice time. Is that absurd or what, that in British Columbia and Ontario the Conservatives are even attacking hockey through this HST?
They simply have gone low beyond belief. They simply do not understand why this is such a hated tax, but they do understand it is hated and that is why they are invoking closure in the most fundamentally anti-democratic way. They are trying to ram the whole thing through this week and are hoping that British Columbians and Ontarians are going to forget.
We are not going to forget and Ontarians are not going to forget. By targeting hockey, environmental programs and everything else, they will suffer the consequences.