I'd obviously be interested in the studies in order to have more input on manufacturing. I think what we've done over these years is helpful. One of the concerns I have is that this is for a pre-budget study. I'd like to know from our perspective what that will do to our manufacturing study, and whether it's going to delay it and the recommendations we can make before the budget. That's a serious consequence of the suggestions here, and I hope there's a plan as to whether we exhaust our current availability slots or whether or not we meet more or longer. If it is going to be done, the reality is it should not be done at the expense of the manufacturing study. We've got a light time-wise, and also monetarily, to do these things.
Unfortunately, this issue has come up at this time, but it's not a mystery, in a sense, because the Harper administration originally broached this topic. When we look at the analysis, I'm hoping to see some things that should be there already. The impact of this topic on industry and so forth is not new. It's happening not only to those corporations that are here domestically, but also internationally. They perhaps have some arrangements in Europe and from other nation-states that could be good examples for Canada. It would also be interesting to find out what their plan is here versus what they've done in other jurisdictions that have applied this kind of tax, whether provincial ones in Canada or states in Europe or other places.
I'm open to it as long as it doesn't negate our current efforts. That would be my big concern.
I'll leave it at that, because a serious issue has been brought here. If we want to resolve it, let's make sure that it doesn't come at a cost to anything else we've done.