Thank you for your questions, Mr. Ste-Marie.
What I want to say is that, of course, we can't not agree with what Mike has said industry is saying. As stakeholders in this, as the members who are working in this industry—and I said this in my opening statement—we've lost 30,000 jobs in the last two years. Mike has stated it, and others have talked about the quality of these jobs. These are great manufacturing jobs that we have in this country. We pay a high level of taxes because of the average wage in this industry, which is money going back into government to pay for social programs and other programs.
As I said, if there is one suggestion we want to make it's that we recommended that there be a study undertaken on the impacts of this tax on aerospace. There appear to be oversights in its design. Its potential implications for jobs in the industry are dangerous, so we strongly recommend that the federal government take a closer look at the impacts of this tax.
As part of the undertaking, we recommend that the government include an analysis of similar taxation frameworks in other countries, as we have said, including the lessons learned, namely with respect to those who are part of Canada's supply chain—we can look at those—and those we compete with, so that we can fully understand the impacts on this industry and the employment.
In essence, we completely agree with the industry, Mike and all the stakeholders that there needs to be more extensive work done on this.
Before there was a discussion on omnibus bills. I fully agree that omnibus bills are usually used to try to rush something through, to not do something properly, to not necessarily take a good look at the impacts that some of these things are going to have on Canadians. I strongly agree that omnibus bills are not necessarily in the best interests of our country. I think things should be looked at a little more closely to ensure that we don't lose any more jobs than we already have.