Essentially, if we were to increase the interest rate on amounts that were paid by the minister to individuals by two percentage points, which is the suggestion here, that, in itself, would in fact cause the government to incur additional amounts. In addition, there would be significant infrastructure changes for systems, resources, etc., to change or to make the proposal here possible. There is extensive programming when it comes to interest rates, and when it's not consistent with all the other tax statutes that exist, there would have to be exceptions built and, as I said earlier, an enormous amount of work spent on this one particular change. So, in fact, there would be significant costs for the government.
On November 2nd, 2006. See this statement in context.