I foresee some interesting talk on the bus. We really do appreciate being here and experiencing your fine Newfoundland and Labrador hospitality. Even though it is raining outside, it's beautiful country, and we're really learning a lot just being here, especially talking to you.
I do want to correct my friend Mr. McCallum. I find that's happening more than it should. I think it's important to put on the record that tax reductions are not crowding everything else out. In fact, program spending increased in the last budget. There's lots of money for everything. And we know that, especially for low-income Canadians, tax reductions, especially GST cuts, are very helpful because of course many pay no other tax, so the GST reduction is the only reduction we can give them.
There are also no cuts to the delivery of literacy. The reductions are made in things like round tables and other tangential activities that do not directly affect the delivery of service. Please be assured that some of the myths around these reductions.... The reductions are actually designed to give more programs to people who need them, and maybe there is a little less activity for people who just want to talk about the delivery of literacy.
I want to get to the airports first. For some reason, airports are on our minds. I don't know if you know the story, but it was quite a challenge getting here, and that has been interesting.
Everywhere we've gone, though, we have heard concerns about airport rents and the fact that people feel that it is basically a tax, because the cost of the infrastructure, the land, has long been met, and now it's just a revenue stream. There has been tremendous concern about that. I'd be more concerned in this part of the country, where this is even more of a lifeline.
There has been some talk from some people about the federal government simply transferring land to an airport authority and letting the airport services regulation left locally. Is that something that you've been looking at, or are you happy to have the status quo, with the reduction in the GST, in airport rent—[Technical difficulty--Editor]