Madam Speaker, I would like to ask a question about businesses. I wonder whether businesses were also consulted before this measure was adopted. It will be expensive for small businesses to change how they do things for two months. We are talking about businesses and people in our ridings and, at some point, some may decide to close their doors because they will not be able to manage. Consider Christmas markets, for example. These businesses will decide to shut down because it is not worth keeping them open for those two months.
What are we telling these businesses? In the end, we are telling them that it does not matter. Also, might this not cause a kind of inflation down the line? After all, we will have to make up for all that missing tax revenue at some point.