The 15,000 hectolitres is great support. What we'd look at is stretching it from 75,000 hectolitres, which is currently the federal government's measuring stick for a small craft brewery. We'd look for the federal government to match Canadian provinces like Saskatchewan, which define craft breweries at 500,000 hectolitres.
I talk in hectolitres. A friend of mine uses a great analogy to ground it. Imagine we're using the word dollars instead of hectolitres. It helps to do this because volume is kind of difficult to understand. Right now, a brewery making $75,000 pays the same income tax as a brewery making $1 million.
We would look at revising that top runway from 75,000 to 500,000 hectolitres, which will create a gentle slope up to that top tax rate that we think small businesses could plan around. Right now, it's quite steep, and it's hard for a small business to invest capital to grow a business with their incremental tax rate. I mean, excise right now doubles basically in the first few steps. It doubles every 2,500 hectolitres. It is maybe the only industry that has such a rapid rise in tax rates.
