Your point is well taken.
Tax legislation tends to be lengthy and dense. A lot of people in Canada make a lot of money reading it and being expert at it, but it does have to be detailed, necessarily, because it is tax legislation. It's the government. It's Parliament exercising its jurisdiction to take money from taxpayers and use it for the government's priorities. It necessarily has to have a lot of detail.
I agree with you. The number of pages in a tax bill doesn't mean very much. We had a lot more pages a couple of years ago in a bill because there were a bunch of schedules attached to the bill that went on for hundreds of pages. It doesn't mean very much, except to tax practitioners who need to interpret it for their clients.
On the other hand, there's a lot of expertise in the Department of Finance in Ottawa. It has a very good reputation, excellent public servants. They try to get it right. It's very important they get it right in the legislation because their colleagues at the Canada Revenue Agency have to administer it. Indeed, the people at the Canada Revenue Agency have to work with Canadians and businesses. We want to be as specific and clear as we can be in dealing with tax matters, so that people understand what the rules are and what their obligations are.