Along that same line of the “don't make it worse” argument, there are also other tax increases planned, which you pointed out, for EI and CPP and for what we're calling the “paycheque taxes”. There's the excise tax, which is going to make the price of beer, of all things, go up by about 6% next spring. That's sacrilege in Canada.
I wonder if you could comment on these things. Your plea to the government is very simple: Just don't make it worse and leave things as they are. It seems to be falling on deaf ears. I'm wondering if you could elaborate a bit further.
When you also pile onto that the cost of interest rates and inflation, or the inflation tax, all of these things seem to be a perfect storm that can only serve to hurt small businesses. These arguments seem to be falling on deaf ears when it comes to the government today.