We're on very tight margins, and it would be devastating. It would be very difficult, and that's why we're proposing this task force. It would be a death by a thousand cuts.
We're part of the solution here. We're a solution for investment, employment, agrifood, health, immigration, tourism, and community development. And we want to ask how you harness that and work into it.
We always get hit by one-off policy decisions. The classic was the HST harmonization in B.C., which was going to increase the sales tax on our industry by 7%. And we got nailed. Well, there was a consequence. Not only was it bad policy; it was bad politics, as I think people are finding out. That's a good example. You have to think it out. We want to pay more than our fair share--we do. But I think we have to think it out, rather than looking through just one policy lens.