I am just looking for some clarity in this issue. I just want to take it piece by piece because I am having a hard time following. I am sure the Minister probably did make the explanation, but I will not contest that it would certainly be onerous. If we could just forget about that and just discuss this issue of mobility rights.

Slapping the payroll tax on everybody that works in the Northwest Territories, regardless of where they live, does not infringe on anybody's rights. Having a northern tax credit which would apply to northern residents as a separate, unrelated issue does not infringe on anybody's mobility rights.

You can obviously provide incentives for people who live in your province or in your territory. It would be no different than the way provinces now compete on income tax rates or business tax rates. I do not see incentives being a mobility infringement. If a payroll tax is not a mobility infringement, where is the infringement?