The 'Get Sheila Tax'

The 'Get Sheila Tax'
By SHEILA COPPS

OTTAWA -- If I had to rewrite history, the one chapter of my time in politics I would like to erase is the sorry story of the GST.

As one who was elected to Parliament in the landslide Grit victory in 1993 after promising to abolish the hated tax, I shuddered along with most of the caucus when we flip-flopped three years later.

Like others, I expected we would deliver. But unlike others, I was actually foolish enough during the campaign to state, on national television, that if we didn't, I would resign my seat.

Now, in one clever move, Harper has managed to hammer home the image of Liberals as promise-breakers and dangle a tax break in front of Canadians that even Finance Minister Ralph Goodale characterizes as sexy. Even Harper knows that sex sells.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Copps_Sheila/2005/12/04/1336345.html

A few more bits on the background on the GST.