The current tax gap in the appliance industry is about 11% of total product costs. As I said, that's more than labour. It's more than the advantage of labour that many people refer to. And this committee I think appropriately characterized that in their interim report in June. We have a lot further to go. The move we've made has changed that from about 11.4% to about 11.2%. That's all. We have a long way to go to try to correct that.
This association, Electro-Federation Canada, represents about 130,000 employees throughout Canada, most of whom work for foreign national companies. There are a lot of opportunities to attract business to our country if we can provide them tax incentives to export. Our economy is not large enough necessarily to draw in the size of industry we need to sustain our economy by the domestic market. We have to represent ourselves as a good base to export. The best way to do that is to provide tax credits based on the consumption tax model that allows you to export product, and by lowering the taxes that Canadians have to pay, both at the business level and others.