Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Dartmouth for her thoughtful response to my comment. I would also like to ask the member if she would entertain the idea of one possible source of revenue if we are looking at harvesting dollars from within the existing tax system instead of raising or increasing taxes. There is one tax situation whereby businesses are allowed to write off fines and penalties as legitimate, tax deductible business expenses. I find this outrageous and I am wondering whether she does as well.
The second thing I would like her to comment on is that a lot of people did not notice that in the $100 billion of tax cuts announced, for over the next five years, one of those tax cuts was reducing the corporate tax from 17% to 16%. I believe it amounts to $750 million per year that the corporate sector would not have to pay in taxes.
If we were looking for revenue, would she agree that these might be two places where we could begin?