Thank you, Chair.
I wanted to follow up on my friend Mr. Thibeault's comments with regards to the surcharge issue.
That area concerns me greatly because I come from business and as a retailer and service provider, if I had the choice to provide that surcharge on top of the bells that I'm going to provide to my customers, it's nothing more than an additional tax, and our government is totally focused on reducing taxes, not increasing them. I truly believe that the discussion has to occur between the merchants and the providers. To his point, if there are areas where we have to be involved in that discussion, that's fine, but competitive advantage and competitive alternatives should provide a solution in that discussion.
Could you comment on that? Again, the surcharge piece really worries me because that's going to hit the consumer, as he stated, and that to me is a real problem. That's where we've got to be very careful because then you're penalizing the people you're trying to support and supply.