On this point, this legislation is not designed to apply to this Governor General. It's to apply to the role of the Governor General from now into the future. As such, based on the progressive tax system we have in Canada, I don't think we can determine the effect on this Governor General or future governors general.
We can do our best, and I think the legislation does that as it is. It's conceivable that various governors general in the future will have various levels of external income. The win in this, from a legislative and public policy perspective, is that we do have the Governor General's salary being taxed.
That is right, and it's no different from members of Parliament. When the changes were made 10 years ago, there was an allowance of I think $30,000. When I was first elected, the base pay was $60-some thousand. There was a $20-some thousand tax free allowance. It was changed, and the entire amount was made.... Some members of Parliament have external sources of income. We don't determine that based on trying to figure out what members of Parliament or governors general's external supports are, whether they receive dividend income or capital gains income or whatever else. That's not our job.
Our job on this is to do something that I think is a step forward in terms of achieving the transparency and accountability of taxing the Governor General's salary in a way that is as close to revenue neutral as we can design. I think that's....