One should add that several regions depend on seasonal industries such as tourism, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and so on.
Ms. Yalnizyan, I quite liked your presentation on what a budget bill should be. Minister Flaherty appeared just before you did. We asked him why provisions on health and safety, which can be found in divisions 17 and 18 of part 3 of Bill C-4, are in a budget bill. He answered that ultimately the government wants to be accountable and that spending is involved.
If you take that argument to its logical conclusion, anything can involve spending and therefore end up in a budget bill. The government could conceivably only present one budget implementation bill per session and include all the legislative provisions that it wants to bring forward for the entire session.
Do you agree with my reasoning? Could that be the logical conclusion?