Mr. Speaker, I address myself to the hon. member as former chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance. He was there when we wrote the report presented in April 2004. This report went much further than the measures announced by the Minister of Finance in mid-December.
Could he explain why we had to wait for six textile plants to close down before the Minister of Finance acted on the report presented by the committee in April 2004? I know we had an election, but from June 28 to mid-December, he had plenty of time to implement these three measures contained in the unanimous report from the Standing Committee on Finance.