On the determination of your company to defy the government's requests to pass on these savings, which your competitors have complied with—and which is obviously an embarrassment to the current finance minister that she can't get you to comply with it—you said it's de minimis, that it doesn't amount to much.
In fact, in your press release, you said it's because of the goods and services tax changes, but really, you only had a one-year holiday on the goods and services tax, and you earlier said that a basis point is a minor amount of money. Your press release says that this is an impact of 0.036% and, therefore, you couldn't pass it along. It seems, in your own words, to be “minuscule”. Despite the fact your business in Canada has improved by 50% in two years, as you claimed in your opening statement, you can't afford to pass on a minuscule change and will defy this Liberal Minister of Finance when you have the next minister of finance on your board.