The Finance bureaucrats' goal seems to be to fill all the holes in the boat, and they're fixated on tax leakage. But at the end of the day there won't be anyone in the boat, and that's part of the problem with such a narrow focus. They don't consider long-term competitiveness.
Mr. Lazar, you mentioned the natural resource wealth we have and its benefit to the economy. I'd be interested in your feedback, or perhaps Mr. Myers' feedback from the manufacturing side, on whether or not our natural resource wealth is creating a Dutch effect in Canada, in fact pricing some of our other sectors in a negative way.