Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her question.
Our tax rate for a person earning $100,000 is double what it is in the United States. Even on the public side with regard to health which is of crucial importance to Canadians, the American public health system spends more per capita than the Canadian health system.
I had a chance to meet an entrepreneur from Boston on an Air Canada flight to Toronto. He indicated to me that one of the advantages of doing business in the Ottawa high tech sector was the value of the Canadian dollar. It was not taxation on his employees. It was the dollar rate. The dollar rate gave him the advantage of doing business at a lower cost.
On the tax side, some people do not have attachments to Canada and do not have the same social attitude about what the government should or should not do for us as individuals. If such people gain 50% on their taxation rate, especially if they earn a six figure salary, they will seek employment outside the country.