Absolutely. Across Atlantic Canada, there were several thousand letters that were sent to MPs from the 95 chambers. We would agree with you that there was a certain tenor in the way the tax proposals were presented that indicated there was not a clear understanding of exactly who small businesses are, what they represent, the types of incomes they're earning, and how these tax proposals would impact them.
To that end, I would say there are numerous examples of Canadian legislation where government has tried to solve a narrow problem with a big, broad hammer. Another example would be the temporary foreign workers program with the previous government, where we were trying to stop a small number of individuals from gaming the system and ended by creating a whole expensive bureaucracy that limited access to a very necessary labour market in Atlantic Canada.