Right now the status quo is that it's just within Ontario and it's Ontario revenue that is collected, so it doesn't affect any other province. We collect the revenues and they're not tracked across all the provinces that are harmonized. We take those revenues, we put them into a pot, and we allocate it based on economic data. When a province provides a point-of-sale exemption, we have to be able to accurately measure what that point of sale exemption is to be able to then subtract it from the amount we transfer to the province. If we can't accurately measure that, it affects the rest of the pool.
On December 8th, 2009. See this statement in context.