In the three westernmost provinces—Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C.—there is no tax on restaurant food. There's food tax fairness. In Atlantic Canada, when the HST was brought in, there was already tax on restaurant meals, so there wasn't the sticker shock that consumers will experience now. But the overall rate of the tax diminished.
That didn't mean there wasn't a lot of concern. Our members in British Columbia are extremely concerned about what the sticker shock will do—it will drive them to those tax-free alternatives. Some of those tax-free meals are produced offshore, yet the same products that are produced by Canadian labour in B.C. businesses will be taxed. A 12% difference is very significant, and consumer behaviour will be influenced by it.