HST Meeting Today

Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer says the Harmonized Sales Tax, set to take effect in Ontario in July, is indeed a Federal issue.

The NDP member disputed Conservative claims that the issue is a Provincial one while speaking in Dryden and Sioux Lookout on the weekend.

Hyer says the HST is bad for Northerners.

Hyer claims Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has been pushing for this tax for years and is now shifting blame over to the Province because it's becoming unpopular.

MP John Rafferty will be in Kenora today for another town hall style meeting.