Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the member a question. Is not the problem here, essentially, and the reason a lot of these Canadian companies, or any company for that matter, go to low taxation districts or areas a reflection that taxes within the domestic market where they operate or the country in which they are based are probably too high?
It seems to me that the fundamental question here is: Should we not be trying to drive down our tax rates in such a way that we could keep these companies' home base here and then we would be able to collect an appropriate amount of tax that would not be in excess of what they could handle?
It would seem to me that this would go a long way to solving Canada's productivity problem which has slipped substantially in the last 20 or 30 years and which we have not been able to regain. Maybe if we kept some of that business at home and taxed it at a reasonable level we would actually gain in the process.