Mr. Speaker, first, thank you for trying to get the parliamentary secretary on track to talk about GST and QST harmonization. I know he was not a member then, but under the Jean Chrétien government and former minister of finance Paul Martin, there was a proposal for Ontario at that time to harmonize, which is what is being proposed today.
The current Minister of Finance was adamant, should it happen, it was no good.
Ontario has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. The economy is not good. People are very concerned. At least the economy was good then. I would like him to tell me and my constituents—