Are you suggesting the HST was actually good for jobs?
I would like to suggest HST is a fairer and much better tax.
The reason it's fearer is that everyone is paying it, and everyone is paying the same amount.
Unfortunately this is not completely true but that was the idea behind it. Government later started basterdising it to keep some industries happy and in effect made it PST like.
It's better because unlike PST we know what we are paying and we know who is paying it.
PST costs us more in government administration and business administration.
PST is kept in such a cloud of ignorance and confusion that you had to pay "experts" to understand what you are doing.
The way I look at it:
I know the government is ripping me off.
I would rather know how much they are ripping me off so I can fight it.
Rather than not knowing and living in the cloud.
The whole tax system is designed to be complicated and for most people not to understand it.
So the government can take money from under our noses and we don't even know about it.