The GST made a lot of money and continues to generate money.
The GST cost businesses a lot of money. The economy dipped into recession shortly after the introduction of it.
And you cannot complain about legitimate Constitutional attempts like Meech Lake and Charlottetown. If the Liberals had been in charge of those discussions there's no way I would have criticised them for that.
Then you're nuts. No province should have more say than any other in this confederation.
In fact, they were a direct result of Trudeau not doing the proper thing and getting Quebec as a signatory to the Charter in 1981 in the first place.
You need to brush up on your history, Jays.
It's not the Charter that began this. It's the patriation of the Constitution that led to this. When the constitution was being put together, PET was in consultation with ALL of the provinces, making sure that it was going to include everything they wanted, without putting one above any other. This was especially important to the northern territories, for example. And when the process began to finalize the constitution,
Trudeau had Quebec's blessing on the draft.
Once it was officially drawn up, and awaiting official signatures, THAT'S when Quebec suddenly pulled out and demanded more from it. They shit on the entire process, and tried to ruin Trudeau, at the last minute.
And that's why PET pulled the "Notwithstanding" clause on them. They've hated him ever since for that, but the fact is, all along that process, PET was not in favour of even including an entrenched Bill of Rights with the Notwithstanding clause in the Constitution. He wanted the Bill of Rights separate.
The irony is, that same clause that PET had to use to pass the Constitution at the last minute is the same one that Quebec used to pass Bill 101.
And the biggest waste of needless money in history occurred in 1993:
Chretien's decision to throw away $500 million to cancel a badly-needed delivery of modern helicopters for the Canadian Forces that hampered the organization for a decade and a half.
... which pales in comparison to Harper's first week in office, where he threw away three consecutive Free Trade rulings against the U.S. over softwood lumber. They owed us over $1B in illegal tariffs, and Harper just threw it all under the rug in his first five days in office.
