Yes, sir. I think the biggest revelation we found was this tax on the purchase of an aircraft. We already pay tax to our maintenance engineers. We pay fuel tax. We pay landing fees. We pay fees to the pseudo-government agency, Nav Canada, which controls and operates our very safe airspace up here.
We already contribute a lot of tax, you know, for this hobby, for the non-ultra rich. We find that this kind of random tax was thrown at us in this budget as a luxury item. Your aircraft is $100,000. My aircraft is $135,000. I have a friend who's a very wealthy individual and has done very well for himself and drives around in a $450,000 car. Do I think he should be taxed higher than me? Absolutely. His repair bill on the car last year was about six hundred bucks. My repair bill on the airplane last year was $7,000, which I paid tax on.
I think the loss of jobs and the loss of tax revenue is going to actually be seriously detrimental versus the benefit of this random tax on $100,000-plus airplanes.