GST

     I have been to Canada about 8 times before now.  Every time I visited Canada, I spent some money.  When I checked the receipt for the first time in Canada, I found the word GST.  Because there was not a consumption tax in Japan at that time, I couldn't understand GST.  Though I wanted to ask what GST was, I didn't have enough English ablility to do so.  When the consumption tax was introduced in Japan, I could understand the GST of Canada.  After the understanding of GST, I wondered why I have to pay the Canadian consumption tax.  I was only a tourist and stayed only a couple of weeks.  I asked a clerk at a gift shop about this matter.  Though she explained how to refund the consumption tax, I couldn't actually do it.  However, this year is not the usual year.  I'm going to get a GST refund this time.  It's because I found the leaflet as shown below.  It's written in Japanese!  I will satisfy my thirst for refunding soon.