Business gets to deduct from income things like the SkyBox at the Air Canada Centre and the business lunch, less personal consumption. Isn't that funded by tax dollars and shouldn't that be accountable? Are we in a position where a mom-and-pop investor should be making a public disclosure and we need disclosure of what the restaurant down the street pays its waitress?
I'm a lawyer. I'm a member of a professional association. I can't practise law unless I'm in and paying. I have no choice. As a steamfitter—I'm also a steamfitter—I can be a union steamfitter or a non-union steamfitter. There are no non-union steamfitters.
Business organizations, advocacy groups, the Merit Contractors Association, LabourWatch, and the other interrelated groups that are in favour of this are asking you to have us do something they're not prepared to do themselves. Who's asking for this? There are no union members chafing in chains and saying, “Give us the disclosure the union won't give us.” The only people asking for this are the Merit Contractors, LabourWatch, and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, a group of interrelated, non-union-supportive employers.