Mr. Speaker, there is more than one version of a flat tax.
The hon. member for Calgary Centre has presented a version which would include RRSPs and would be a modified version of the present system. It would be far simpler, far less complicated, and people would be able to understand it a lot more. He is just being reasonable. He is saying: "Let's not throw out everything that we have done up until now. Let's remember that the current tax system is what undergirds different parts of the economy".
If we yank it out in one big sweeping movement, there will be all kinds of implications throughout the economy. He has presented a very reasonable way of simplifying the system, still allowing people to save for their own retirement, especially at a time when
the government has failed to do anything to preserve the Canada pension plan, thus imperilling the future of many Canadians.