Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to my hon. colleague with whom I share the privilege of sitting on the finance committee. He has done some fine work on that committee. The member asks good questions and does his homework.
In answer to the previous question, he suggested that the finance minister of Canada has changed his position on the requirements for this proposal that is suggested in the motion today. The facts are that the finance minister has not changed his position from what has been offered to all provinces. In fact, Quebec has said that it is not willing to adopt full harmonization of the sales tax.
We have provided funding for the role it is playing in taxes, but to suggest that the Government of Quebec is willing to fully harmonize, I wish the hon. member would share with us that letter where the provincial government has said it will actually fully harmonize. I would be glad to present that to our finance minister as an olive branch, that the provincial government is willing to sit down and talk seriously.