Mr. Speaker, I believe the hon. member is wrong. He says that the economies of scale that exist in other industries have not hampered Canadian businesses from operating. Perhaps there are industries where that is true. Obviously such is the case. However, I challenge the member to find people in the printing business who would not agree with the proposition I am going to make and say that when we are talking about printing and distribution of documents, periodicals and otherwise, economies of scale are not important.
The small book publishers in Canada would agree that the economy of scale that exists south of the border has been very difficult for their industry as well. I have a company in my riding called Cormorant Books, which has published works from very famous Canadian authors. It always has this difficulty because of the huge size of the runs south of the border whereby one can publish books, perhaps not of the same quality. I think our authors are better. Maybe I am just a little biased in that regard. Notwithstanding, the fact remains that the cost of publishing per unit when we get into those absolutely large sizes south of the border is such that it makes it very difficult for the Canadian industry.
All this bill hopes to do is to provide the small incentive that will make it such that we can help our Canadian industry a little bit in the area of periodicals and magazines. It is not a sinister plot. It is not cultural nationalism or cultural whatever it was the hon. member referred to a while ago. It is simply a reflection of the reality that we can and we should as a society have this kind of an industry based in Canada for the benefit of Canadians.
Surely the hon. member would understand that. If he does not, perhaps his constituents or others can remind him of the benefits of what I have just referred to.