Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his very thoughtful comments and questions. I agree that there are very serious concerns about the impact of this proposal on the individual.
We heard from the minister that this is about streamlining, about simplifying. Even if we take that at face value that may be good for governments in terms of huge bureaucracies but there are very real questions about how that does affect individual Canadians who then have to find their way through an increasing maze of a massive bureaucracy, to try to retrieve information, to find out what happened to their income tax return or any other matter that may be before the agency.
From the individual's point of view, from the taxpayer's point of view, there has not been a thorough examination to really answer whether this is in the public's interest, which is not necessarily the same as the government's interest in terms of the bureaucracy.
The question here is the public interest and I think for individual Canadians that question has not been answered. In fact, there are serious concerns that it is not in the public interest and, therefore, it should not go ahead.