New Brunswick's Minister of Finance has conceded that as many as 20 per cent of New Brunswickers could be impacted negatively by the HST. Honourable senators, about 20 per cent, as the minister casually said, means that approximately 160,000 of our people will be negatively impacted by the HST.
Le ministre des Finances du Nouveau-Brunswick a admis que le pourcentage de la population pouvant être durement touchée par la TVH pourrait atteindre 20 p. 100. Honorables sénateurs, ce pourcentage que le ministre a lancé comme ça, en passant, correspond à environ 160 000 personnes.