Through you, Mr. Chair, I think we all know that Mr. Van Kesteren is an upstanding citizen who always pays his fair share of his taxes, so I'm surprised that there was a shortfall in his contribution to the taxes of the Ontario government. I'm sure it was an oversight.
But you make a very good point. It is certainty that people need. It is certainty that businesses require. They need certainty in the amount of taxes they have to pay.
What we've done, I would suggest, has played a very positive role in reducing taxes for businesses, but by doing that we also expect them to pay their fair share of taxes. If they don't know what the legal ramifications are, or if they don't know what the tax act actually specifies, whether it was....
When it's tabled in the House of Commons, it's basically assumed by CRA that they can collect the taxes. Businesses, and the accounting firms that you employ, are not quite so certain.
So to your point, it is about certainty and about businesses being able to count on those decisions being made. That's why it's necessary to get a technical bill like this passed, so that there is certainty for those businesses and they know what they can plan on.