It's a matter of shares, then.
There is also the 10% rule that was referred to. In an RRSP, investing in an RRSP reduces your income for that year. So if we compound that reduction in the taxes one has to pay with the reduction in the taxes due to the company through the shareholders, as you just explained, it would almost result, or will likely result, in even further tax avoidance. Perhaps that has something to do with that 10% rule.
Mr. Inglis, You gave the example of a smaller start-up or less successful co-ops that would benefit from government funding. I'm just trying to understand how I could explain it to a blueberry farmer in my riding, for example, who is successful and pays taxes into the system and is having his taxes used to subsidize a blueberry organization, a group of businesses, who are, in turn, in competition with him. How would I explain that this is what we're doing?