I've talked to quite a few international travellers over the last few years, and one of the things they say they notice, they appreciate, is getting the value-added tax back. You alluded to it already. Here it's called the GST, of course, and we don't give it back.
Many craft shops across the country--and we have substantial artwork in this country, and some of the pieces are worth $3,000 or $4,000 easily--are telling me that this GST rebate is really having an effect on them. A person would get $200 or $300 back on a substantial piece of artwork--it could be native artwork, it could be local artwork--and they're not buying it. So some of them are feeling that they almost have to go back to the people who are making the crafts and say, “We're going to have to give them the GST back, because they're not going to buy it knowing they don't have it.”
I had a couple of questions. Was there any consultation with your groups--consultation on the numbers, the impact it had--when the government decided to do this? How important is it that this rebate comes back?