Mr. Speaker, the hon. member covered a lot of ground in those few minutes, just as the government has covered in 464 pages of this bill with complex wording that very few Canadians can understand.
Let us look at the issues. The complexity of the Income Tax Act makes it unintelligible to all but a few people. If the government feels that is what Canadians want in the tax act, I suggest that is not the case. Canadians cannot understand the Income Tax Act. If people cannot understand the basis on which they are being asked to pay taxes they lose confidence in the system and that is what has happening. Not only are they losing confidence in the system because they cannot understand it, they are losing confidence in the system because every time they turn around they are absolutely aghast at the amount of taxes they have to pay. That is the centre core of the issue.
The hon. member may talk about tax losses and transfer pricing and so on. He may have a legitimate point. But the fact that Canadians cannot understand their own Income Tax Act is a greater point and that is the point I am trying to make.
With regard to education yes, I said it is the responsibility of the educational institutions and the educational industry to produce educated people. That surely is not much to ask for. The private sector produces goods and services. We provide minimum regulations that say automobiles must meet safety requirements, otherwise a company cannot produce these automobiles. If it does not meet the safety requirements we shut the place down or we ask it to recall its product.
We do not ask the educational industry to recall the defective products it produces, students who cannot do math and who cannot even read the certificate they are given in grade 12. The point is we can ask for accountability. We do not have to set the curriculum and so on, but surely we can ask for accountability.
That a university would bump up its student intake with people it knows right off the bat have no hope of graduating or even passing the exams just so it can fill its coffers with extra money because it is paid on the number of students it accepts surely is a false premise and false hope for the students and a total and absolute waste of taxpayer dollars. It knows and we know that many of these students who are accepted with less than minimum requirements will not graduate.
If the hon. member cannot understand that, he has a serious problem.