I do believe that, yes. I would suggest to you that we should also consider the harm that those net costs have, if there are any, on the economy that paid for it. You mentioned earlier that some of your indicators are the number of people who will be employed, but companies that pay taxes employ fewer people. The more tax they pay, the fewer people they employ. I realize these things are hard to measure, but I know that Finance Canada does have some methodology to measure these things. I know that when a proposed reduction in a corporate tax rate is made, Finance does an analysis on how many net jobs it will create or...an increase will reduce.... We get these reports as this process unfolds.
Would you consider matching the purported benefits with the actual economic costs of deploying the public money in the first place?