I'm an eternal optimist, Mr. Barr, with respect to the commitments. I hope they would be achieved, but I know those are very large sums of money that the government would have to commit to, and it probably couldn't do quite a number of other things it would wish to do.
Anyway, I take your point and I think it's a valid point. I know there's a great deal of enthusiasm, and it does in fact seem to be the right thing to do.
I have limited time and I want to move to other questioners, but thank you for that.
Turning to the business tax reform folks, every year you come in here and ask for relief from capital taxes and you get that, you ask for a reduction in corporate income tax and you get that, you get accelerated capital cost allowances, etc. And every year the performance is the same in R and D. It seems to me, frankly, that the Canadian business community goes south on R and D. We have the best publicly funded R and D in the world. We also find out that foreign-based companies do more R and D than Canadian companies in Canada.
There seems to be some disconnect between the business community's rhetoric and the business community's delivery. You see things like the drive to convert from corporations to trusts. All that is is an attempt to drive out your earnings so that they're not available for things like R and D.
Can you explain to me why there appears to be this huge disconnect between the rhetoric of the corporate community and the delivery of the corporate community?