Thank you.
I wanted to share with you that we did appreciate the consultations, but where we saw problems was simply in the way they were handled. For example, for the proposed legislation, the change on income splitting, for example, was not received by businesses as though it was just a proposal. It really came across as though it was a done deal, and that this was the way it was going to be moving forward.
Also, the rhetoric that was used was borderline offensive. I thought I'd just share that. Many small businesses, doctors, physicians, and dentists expressed to us that they felt they were being considered cheats or were looking for loopholes to dodge the system when they were actually simply using the process that was in place to run their business in the way they do.