It is unfortunate, Mr. Speaker, that the member opposite has not read advantage Canada, which is the economic plan for Canada. He has failed to note the accelerated capital cost allowance that we did in March this year, the $1.3 billion to assist manufacturers and the historic tax reductions that we did on October 30. Now we do need tax reductions but we need them in Ontario.
As Jack Mintz said yesterday from the Rotman School of Management:
Ontario has one of the highest effective tax rates on capital not just in Canada but around the (industrialized) world.
The [Ontario] government has not understood that its policies have hurt capital--