We have not set out a specific plan. We did ask our members, and we gave them the example of starting at $100,000. There was broad-based support.
Slide 5 of our deck shows that 82% of our members supported the idea of a full year deductibility with the example of $100,000. There were only 11% opposed. That would be a starting point. You might consider that if the Obama administration was able to do it with half a million dollars U.S., you might look at a two-year or three-year plan to get there, starting at a reasonable level.
For our members, what has been more important about government policies when it comes to deficit reduction and all sorts of tax measures is not that we get there in one year—although there is some urgency to it—but that governments lay out a plan to get there. I think if there were a meaningful start to it in 2019 and a plan to get, over multiple years, towards the U.S. levels, I think that would address, at least for small and medium-sized firms, a lot of the competitive questions they have.
I certainly agree with you, Mr. Sorbara, that there are some warts in the U.S. system, absolutely, but small business optimism in the U.S. is at an all-time high. That is not the case in Canada.