Well, the record will show what you said. What you did say was, yes, because it's in the book, the rate that Canadians actually pay.... Canadians don't actually care whether their rate is legislated or passed by ways and means; Canadians only care what they actually pay. As you just acknowledged--as the book says--that rate will go from 15% to 15.5% as of July 1. I'm pleased you acknowledged it. Those three other points follow from that acknowledgement.
Now I will ask my second and final question, which is on fiscal imbalance: how are you going to pay for this? Whether you do a 10-province standard, with or without resource revenues, the cost is in the billions of dollars per year. I think a billion dollars is just small change when it comes to giving additional funds to provinces, whether through equalization or transfers. You have budget surpluses in the next two years of $0.6 billion and $1.4 billion, and you have no more prudence. You seem to have spent all the money. You've promised to fix the fiscal imbalance, but the monetary cupboard is bare.
We don't have the figures for years three, four, and five, but all the tax measures you have announced are ongoing. The experts I have consulted think there won't be all that much additional funding going forward.
When you make a big election commitment to fix the fiscal imbalance, you actually take money back from provinces through cancelled child care agreements, and the cupboard is bare. How are you going to honour that commitment?