There is significant uncertainty. I get private emails every week saying, “I'm pulling my money out of the country.” These were not National Post or Globe and Mail op-eds. These are private emails in which people are silently saying that they can't put up with the uncertainty.
I don't agree with what was said before about having almost a royal commission on taxation. We don't need a royal commission on taxation. We can address the policy issues that have been tabled here—on all three fronts, I think—with simple and sensible approaches. They're not the approaches that have been set out by the government.
I do think we need an independent review, but there has been discussion here, Mr. Chair, about involving what I'll call the business lobbyist group and this group and that group. We need the Minister of Finance to establish a committee, set out clear terms of reference, and have that committee meet with no political influence—no Department of Finance influence or Revenue Canada influence—like the Mintz committee, on which I was proud to serve in the late 1990s, free from political or Department of Finance influence. The Department of Finance folks—and I have many friends there—will not like it, but that's the only way to get a dispassionate discussion.
Thank you.