One of my earlier thoughts about SR and ED, which I believed would have worked better than what's happened, was to say that we're going to keep this as a tax credit because we want businesses, not government, to decide what they should do and shouldn't do in terms of R and D, but we're going to require you up front to indicate that you're going to apply for this in relation to the R and D you're doing. The concern we were hearing, of course, was about the consultants who would make a fair buck by going back over a business's activities and trying to find things that fitted into this category and applying for the credit, rather than having legitimate R and D activity that was being done.
I know of a company in my riding that's done very innovative work, has a very innovative product that's selling around the world now, and has had no success with SR and ED because they claimed that they weren't doing R and D. They've got a really innovative product that they did R and D on, so it was very frustrating.
What's your view of where the government should have gone?