First, in my remarks, I indicated that there's twice as much potential economic growth in harmonizing trade barriers across provinces as there is in the child care initiative.
The best empirical work conducted by a professor from the University of Calgary, along with people at the IMF, suggests that for the country as a whole, we could boost national income by about 4% by erasing these inconsistent regulations across provinces.
That, to me, is free money because it just means sitting down and saying that, okay, there are eight different regulatory specifications for furnaces for homes across this country. Imagine if you're the manufacturer of furnaces; you need to manufacture to eight different standards. What is the purpose of that? It's an accidental outcome. Provinces do their own regulation, and over time, you get these divergences.
All we need to do is to have a weekend where everybody rolls up their sleeves and is committed to doing this. If we did this, then you could also leave the room and say, “We think we can do this without raising taxes.” Wouldn't that be a good news item?
To me, the motivation has never been higher than it is today to get down and to get serious about this. Of course, there are some things in there that people will defend very vigorously. Maybe it really is important that the creamers you get in the coffee shop in Montreal must be a different size than the ones you get in a coffee shop in Toronto. Maybe that's really important to someone, but I'm afraid I don't understand it.