Mr. Speaker, I get the feeling that my colleagues on the government side are going to vote against our motion.
What I would like to see is them voting for our motion and then taking the steps stated by the hon. member: to sit down with the World Trade Organization and talk over with the OECD how exactly we can change these thing. That can come from this new shipbuilding policy which we are talking about.
I want to clarify something for the member. When we talk about the new construction ships built in Canadian shipyards being excluded from the present Revenue Canada leasing regulations, what we are saying is that under the current rules, the company pays more taxes in the first several years which runs counter to the actual economies of owning and operating a ship to the useful life of the ship.
Under the proposed change that we have mentioned, the company would pay most of the taxes toward the end of the useful life of the ship. We are saying that it would get it all, but this is what the industry is saying to us.
I am asking members to assist and help us. Let us all work together to come up with a national shipbuilding policy that will help all of our people throughout Canada. I ask my colleague to look at that in a positive way.