Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to thank hon. members of the Reform Party and the Bloc Quebecois for supporting the bill.
I think the bill is an important bill because often we have had in the House both the Reform and the Bloc talking about duplication in government, talking about paper burden on small businesses and the administrative difficulty of managing the GST.
I think the government recognizes some of those concerns and this bill shows that we want to ensure that the government is aware of the concerns of small business in terms of the difficulties of the GST.
As someone who has been a small businessman, I think that doing things as simply as possible, as the hon. member said very well, we can help small businesses to be more competitive. We can help to ensure it is efficient and productive.
I want to thank the members for that and for the excellent comments that were made by the hon. member on how we as a government can work toward improving the environment for small business so it can be more productive, efficient, create more jobs and get this economy moving.