I absolutely am.
As I said, Mr. Angus, I invite you to table an amendment lowering it to $160,000. I think $100,000, as advocated by the Taxpayers Federation, is too low. I think the Ontario list captures too many people, some 79,000 by my count.
By raising it to the upper level of DM-4, $329,000, it would capture virtually nobody. There would be some CEOs of some corporations, perhaps a few judicial appointments, and some chairs of some boards and commissions. But all deputy ministers would not be subject to it, by definition, because the proposal is that it be raised above the DM-4 level.
I'm dumbfounded that the government would do this, but it is what it is.