I'll speak to the general principle here.
I don't know which number causes me greater difficulty, the $5 million from our friends in the Bloc or the $11 billion from the government. If in fact it's the $11 billion from the government, on a revenue base of personal income tax of $116 billion on an annual basis, that's pretty incredible when you think about it. You're taking $11 billion out of the government's revenue stream. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
On the other hand, the Bloc's number doesn't make much sense either. It does seem to me that the government has larded up its number to the point that it's almost at a level of impossibility.
Taking $11 billion from a personal income tax revenue base of $116 billion means that seniors are paying a grossly disproportionate share of income tax on an annual basis, and I don't even think that's true; yet, to my friends in the Bloc, I have to say that to think this is only $5 million equally doesn't make sense.
Mr. Page says I need the answers to four issues. That was his last statement to us. The issues are refundability, transferability of benefits, eligibility, whether it's current or applies to the past, and things of that nature. Those are all pretty darn legitimate questions.
I don't know how to vote--how one can support this under the circumstances. That's my gut reaction.