Okay. I'm going to take the final round as the chair and wrap up the questioning.
I wanted to address Mr. Myers and come back to the accelerated capital cost allowance, one of my favourite topics. Six years ago, you proposed to me that the industry committee look at manufacturing. Dave Van Kesteren was on that committee, and I thought all committee members, the industry, and the witnesses did an outstanding job. It was interesting. We had agreement from labour, from industry, all sorts of people telling us what the challenges were and how to meet them. This was our first recommendation as a committee, one of the unanimous recommendations.
The challenge has always been to prove the economic impact to people who are skeptical of it. Mr. Adler addressed this very well. I can't tell you how many plants I've been through where the plant manager will say, “That $1 million piece of equipment is there because of the government, and now we're much more productive.” But they always say it's part of a whole series of measures. You mentioned work sharing and corporate taxes. But the one thing they raise with accelerated capital cost is the timeline. They need a timeline, because businesses don't operate under six-month schedules; they operate on a multi-year timeline.
I want you to address, first of all, the impact of this measure, taking into account the corporate tax argument. Frankly, your organization has done one of the best pieces on the benefits of corporate taxes. I can't understand why people still say it's like giving money to corporations. They talk as if Parliament is taking a bag of money, giving it to your members, and telling them to go have fun in Las Vegas. This is completely contrary to what really goes on.
I want you to talk about the impact of the CCA and to refer to your study on the corporate tax reductions and the benefits it brings, taking into account that businesses have already factored these corporate taxes for January of 2012 into their business plans.