I asked this the last time the Finance officials were here. What is it going to cost to implement this type of budget? Because with the new measures regarding the book fee credit, or whatever you want to call it, the employment tax credit, the implementation of the GST, the $80-a-month transit.... How are we going to manage all this? Normally we just look at reducing tax rates. It's easy; it's a change on a tax form and that's it. Now we're going to be implementing all these fancy new tax measures that add up to practically nothing. But it has to cost money somewhere, whether it be to the consumer, to businesses, to the department. There have to be more costs involved with implementing a budget like this than....
On May 30th, 2006. See this statement in context.