First of all, I'd like to say I agree with Madam Pellerin.
If I could just add, one of the central rules in economics is that price affects consumption. You increase the price and consumption goes down; you reduce it and consumption goes up. And this is one of the reasons why taxes on tobacco products were such an important tool for reducing tobacco consumption in Canada.
We're not proposing radical increases to taxes on food; we're just saying don't tax fruits and vegetables.
I think Ms. Davidson asked me a question about this in 2006 or 2007, whenever you were doing the obesity study, and my point was the same. Don't tax fruits and vegetables, and for heaven's sake, reconsider the exemption for bacon, chicken wings, lard, and sweetened breakfast cereals. It just doesn't make any sense.
The federal government collects between $3 billion and $4 billion a year from GST, and provincial governments get around the same from their portion. It just doesn't make any sense.