Yes, Mr. Chairman, I do have a motion. It goes to the heart of our tax system, and that is the fair treatment of every taxpayer under the law.
It came to the attention of all of us late last year that certain taxpayers in one constituency of Canada, those represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, had actually been granted an exemption from capital gains tax on shares they had been granted by their employer. They were the only ones in Canada who were granted that exemption from actually having to pay a tax that is required under the tax code of Canada. The taxpayers in all other 307 constituencies in Canada are required to pay. It seems highly irregular and very annoying to taxpayers in my constituency--and I'm sure to everyone else around this table--that they may have to pay capital gains taxes on shares acquired from their employer under certain circumstances whereas Mr. Lunn's constituents do not have to pay that tax.
My motion is to have a look into how this issue arose and whether all Canadians should have the same treatment under the tax code of Canada and as stipulated by the Canadian taxpayers' bill of rights. It's very cut and dried. Our duty here is to make sure that all of us in fact are treated absolutely equally by our government.