Mr. Speaker, I listened to the hon. member's speech. He touched on a few areas. One was the underground economy. There are a few questions that I would like to ask the hon. member.
He talked of a new tax to take the place of the GST. People are a little bit apprehensive about this. Everyone wants to see the GST cleaned up, me especially, but people are starting to worry that maybe this new tax might include all consumption of food and so forth. They worry about the startup costs on this. Are we looking at another startup cost along the lines of the GST?
There is another thing I would like to ask the hon. member. When I started to work I enjoyed working two shifts. It paid me to work two shifts. Today workers sit down and they figure out right to the hour when it no longer pays them to work because taxes now take over. I see this as a lost revenue because the jobs do not get done. In many cases they get put over to be done the next year. Small outfits that hire people in the bush and so forth make up to a certain amount of capital and then when the tax bite becomes too big they lay the people off to go on unemployment insurance. I wonder if the minister has looked into this area at all.