Madam Speaker, first of all, the GST holiday for essentials is great. We have no problem with that. However, why design the measure to include $100 bottles of champagne and $500 restaurant bills? That is short-sighted, and it makes no sense.
As for dental care, Quebec was already administering a public program. Now, the government is handing it over to the private sector, to Sun Life, for a total of $2 billion. That means that people in Quebec are paying $500 million just for the administration of this program. It would have been be better if the government had invested $500 million in dental care, while respecting jurisdictional boundaries.