I understand that, and the minister was clear on that before. But approaching CRA means approaching the bureaucracy. The minister is an elected member and he's a member of the executive. You can approach the bureaucracy. But who's boss? The minister is the boss, as the elected member, but there is an administrative boss called a deputy minister, and that deputy minister has given different advice. So you can be sure that the machine is going to listen to its permanent boss more than the transitory one.
There is a way for the transitory boss to effect the result that he correctly brought here. I agree with him. Change the law. Propose to your colleagues in cabinet that the statute be amended, and bring that before the House. You can count on our support, and I suspect you can count on the support of a lot of other people around the table.
We're not pleading against helping people who are being taxed unfairly for phantom income. We're pleading against the unfairness of a purely discretionary case-by-case approach. Why not solve the problem once and for all?