Specifically with regard to the CRA and the taxation issue, this is complicated, but we can simplify it. The CRA has committed to bringing back T4As, but it needs to happen now. Fourteen years is long enough. Step one is you bring that back.
Step two is the personal services business model. It was studied by the CRA, and Jonathan has been involved in that and can provide a little bit more detail. Simply put, the CRA has discovered that we have a big problem with PSBs. Trucking is our number one problem, so the question from the CTA is this: Why hasn't action occurred? Why did the fall economic statement say that the CRA was going to give us answers in the 2023 budget when there has been silence ever since, while the crisis grows?
You can see it in the larger document, toward the end: it is billions of dollars; we have costed it. The CRA has been provided these documents. You are looking at between $1 billion and $5 billion, depending on how you want to cut it. As for government, as we know right now, Prime Minister Carney is leading our nation in trade and also said we have to limit expenses. We are here, as an industry, to give you $5 billion to clean our industry up. Why hasn't the CRA taken us up on our offer?
