Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll try to be brief. I have two short questions for Mr. Essensa.
You commented briefly in your opening statement about a Taxpayer Protection Act. In our notes for the last number of weeks there has been a statement about the Taxpayer Protection Act in Ontario prohibiting in some circumstances the raising of taxes, or the establishment of a new tax, unless they have been previously approved in a referendum.
Either there's a very narrow definition of “some circumstances” or there is a way around this, because I'm convinced that taxes in Ontario have been increased without a referendum a number of times. Can you help me understand what that's about?
This was from 1999 on.