Thank you very much.
I'll come back to Mr. Mullin and Mr. Irving. Both of you have raised very interesting points, Mr. Mullin around the review of the tax system and Mr. Irving around the Competition Bureau.
I come out of social enterprise. As I mentioned, I'm a member of the Burnaby Board of Trade and the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce. I think that when we're talking about a review of the tax system, we have to go beyond simple tax rates and actually look at tax shelters and overseas tax havens and whether or not those are actually serving Canadian interests. I believe in a partnership of public and private investment.
I'm going to ask you in a moment, Mr. Mullin, to comment on that review of the tax system, which also includes overseas tax havens and tax shelters.
I have a question for you Mr. Irving, on competitiveness and the idea that Canadian businesses benefit from our universal medicare system. The normal rule of thumb is $3,000 per employee per year, as compared to our American competitors who have a patchwork and incredibly inefficient medical system. Many people advocate for us to move to a pharmacare system because that would reduce costs to Canadian businesses as well. It would make them more competitive by eliminating anywhere from $4.5 billion to $6 billion that Canadian businesses currently pay for drug plans. Could the competitiveness bureau also look at those elements of competitiveness that exists in the Canadian economy?
Those are my questions to both of you.