Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here today.
The passport implementation, the petrodollar policy we have of a high dollar value in Canada right into the United States market, and the GST rebate being eliminated are three significant steps against your industry that have really targeted three-quarters of our market. I don't know of another industry facing similar challenges to this extreme, aside from the auto industry and few others like this.
You need to understand that in the normal process for legislation like the HST, it would actually go to committee, there would be study and then debate in the House of Commons, and there would be votes on it. That would be the normal process to get your input. That's being taken away from this debate right now. Quite literally, you have some of the very limited testimony that's going to take place if we don't change paths right now.
Here's what I want to know. Is it important, in your opinion, for the HST to be studied in order to look at the consequences and at where some solutions could be found prior to its implementation?