Perhaps I can add a few things.
Indeed, we do not want to keep companies artificially alive or throw money out the window, especially when we are dealing with taxpayers' money, which is our money. We cannot do the investing for companies. But if we give them a tax credit or help them with investment support measures, such as 20¢ on the dollar, they would still have to find the other 80¢. Companies have to make the decision to invest. If you reduce their investment costs, you make investing more interesting. It might the only way for companies to become productive and profitable in a sector which, today, is feeling a lot of pressure.
We do not want to invest for them, nor tell them what to do. We do not want to tax at a lower rate the profits of companies in a single sector, as was done in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, on the pretext that they are less profitable than companies in other sectors. Everyone has to pay the same rate. The rate could be applied across all sectors, regardless of the level of investment, but the process would be benchmarked and companies would be helped.
I said 20¢, but it could just as well be 10¢, 12¢ or 15¢; it's up to you to decide. Quebec introduced this type of credit in its most recent budget and it was adapted to the particular characteristics of each region. The rate varies between 5% and 40%, depending on the region. I don't think that in Canada we could vary the rate by region, but the least we could do is offer an interesting rate to signal to companies that we encourage investment and that we want to help them invest for a certain period of time.