I think it's important to remember that we had very high tax rates in a number of areas back in the 1980s. One of the things that was done very markedly under the governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin was to lower tax rates in a variety of areas. I don't think it's a coincidence that Canada's economic performance improved. In fact, the gap between our living standards and those elsewhere in the OECD and in the United States closed over a period of years, so I don't think high tax rates are helpful.
