Mr. Speaker, I could not agree with my hon. colleague more. It is indeed a problem. We cannot on one hand ask for millions or billions of dollars in various aid concerns throughout the country such as West Nile and SARS, and at the same time foreign companies come in that are extremely profitable to begin with and they get much more generous tax allowances in terms of their considerations through the federal government.
Some of the questions we will be asking during the committee, is how do they justify that? The whole root of this question is, are Canadians getting maximum return on their resources? That is really the essence of it. We have inequities in this country right now. It appears, if it is looked at it from the eastern perspective, that Alberta is doing very well on the royalties from the extractions of its resources. But why is it then that other provinces like Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are not?
I realize the offshore argument in that, but these are some of the questions we need to ask the government when the bill gets to committee.