The current tax treatment means one thing. It means that the sale is not made in Canada and the sale goes to the U.S. We exist in small border communities. We are not a big industry, but we are big employers in the communities that we are in.
When you start to lose sales to the U.S. because of the tax treatment, then the sales are just not made here. This is a specialized industry of 40 years. We have perfected our supplier networks. We have perfected the relationships that we have in our communities.
The tax treatment is a simple thing for us in our industry. It is to recognize that we are export and we are mandated as export to give us consistent export treatment. We live up to the intent of the policy in which it is. We are not asking to remove the tax. This is revenue-positive back to Canada, and it makes sense to us, because we want to support Canadian businesses. We want to support our border communities.
If a sale isn't made in the duty-free, it just goes to the U.S. We lose every sale, and we lose the ancillary sales we have, which could be purchases of souvenirs such as maple syrup from our Canadian producers. That is what's important to us. We want Canadian jobs to still be there, and we want our industry to still be there.