On the tax front, personal income taxes currently are our members' number one priority. That tends to ebb and flow over time, but right now they have prioritized PIT. As I mentioned, there are a number of ways that could be accomplished: increasing basic personal exemptions, lowering rates, and on and on and on. So our members certainly realize that lowering taxes for everyone is the most effective way to do it.
They welcomed the GST decrease, mind you, just to clarify that point, because that was widely discussed, but our members feel the next step should be on the PIT side.
I didn't get to really talk about the whole succession planning issue; this again has tax implications, obviously, but we see the same demographics in the small business community as we do in the overall population. Naturally, we're going to be facing a really large group of our business owners retiring, handing their businesses off in one way or the other over the next little while, so we've made a few recommendations in the capital gains area that we feel, for example, are very important.
I guess the third main area is the paper burden and red tape. Garth is co-chairing this committee right now with Industry Canada. We're really hopeful that in this round--which is about round 35, at least as far as we can tell--we will see some..... We want to talk about productivity today; that is, a low-cost productivity measure that everybody can buy into.