Mr. Speaker, I much prefer the comments made by my hon. colleague over what I have heard from the government and the NDP. In fact, that is precisely what we must try to do. The government is bringing in an atomic bomb, when all that is needed is a little surgery. That is what we want to work on.
Our problem is what is written in the budget. We are working with what the budget says. The minister was not obligated to write that. Here is the sentence:
Budget 2007 will eliminate the deductibility of interest on debt incurred by corporations to finance foreign affiliates.
This has to do with the entire deductibility. This would mean that our companies could no longer do business in the global economy with the same tools as the Americans, Japanese and Europeans. We must tell the government—