Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Obviously, from the answer of the Minister, you can tell what a difficult challenge this one is.
But on the point I raised about the vacation travel allowances: you know, if we looked a little deeper into this problem, we’d realize that if we started setting aside some of the wages onto a taxable benefit, that would offset and work out in the employee’s favour, if we described it that way. It wouldn’t have to be a return of a lush agreement. It could just be a modest contribution that works toward the employee’s benefits.
Mr.
Speaker, on that point, would the Human
Resources Minister look into the idea about reallocating some of the wage that’s attributed to a vacation allowance so that the taxable benefit works out in favour of the employee and would probably go a long way to improve employee morale?