The reason I've asked, to be frank with you, is that I had an individual business myself and I never had any issues.
I want to be clear. I think there are a few issues that you've brought forward here today. Maybe through the interpretation I'm not catching that. I think Ms. Jennings' motion deals with one part of it.
I heard also--and I'll use training as an example--that if you're self-employed and you go to training yourself, if you're listed under the personal business category, you're not able to deduct that. However, if I were defined as a small business because I had five employees or whatever, I could deduct it. Is that correct?
I want to be clear on another issue I heard about so that I understand it, because we'll eventually have CRA people in front of us who I'll want to ask these questions to.
On the interpretation at present--we'll use the computer business as an example--if you're doing consulting in a computer company, let's say at a large credit union in Quebec.... They normally have an employee-employer relationship with the people who work there, but if you come in and do three months of computer consulting for them and you have a contract with them, how does CRA interpret it? What is the issue? I need to understand what that issue is.
If you're not able to deduct your expenses and so on while working for them, is the company, the credit union, able to deduct you as an employee? Is it going both ways? I need to know that.