I'm going to share my time with my colleague.
Mr. Dinis, we parliamentarians are facing a virtual absence of answers from the government when we ask questions in the House. I'd like to go back to the harmonization issue. This is another file. We have before us a request for additional funding, which intrigues me. You're our non-political source of information. I understand that you didn't want to talk about the political decision and orientation, but we should at least get some information.
I'd like to know whether the government is interested in harmonization. There was to be additional revenue, not just additional expenditures. We know the additional expenditures; there has been a compensatory subsidy granted to the provinces that have agreed to harmonize. You also have additional operating expenditures.
Are there any revenues for the government when taxes are harmonized? Is that profitable or is it simply an expenditure that is withdrawn from the provinces and transferred to the federal government?