Mr. Speaker, I congratulate you on your new post. I am sure we will have an interesting year.
I want to ask the Leader of the Opposition a simple question and I am hopeful that he will provide a very short answer.
We clearly disagree on tax issues. One of the main things we have disagreed on in the past is the GST increase. We believe in lowering taxes and the NDP voted against the GST decrease, not once but twice. I would ask the opposition leader if he agrees with his current NDP finance critic, who said the following, “Cuts to the GST...take us in the wrong direction. I am very proud that our caucus stood opposed to that”.
Does the NDP leader still feel proud to go with the finance critic in saying that the GST reduction was wrong?