Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are committed to bringing forward a proposal for a heritage fund. We know that from some quarters there is an interest in a resource tax. We have indicated that we’re looking at tax shifting at this point, given that we’re still in a recession that while there are some weak signs of recovery, it’s not clear that we’re on the way out and that we don’t have anything further to worry about. But we have committed, as a result of our roundtable, to do work on a resource tax, and look at the feedback we’ve received and put a discussion paper out there so that we could initiate that policy discussion to see. Keeping in mind the last time, about a year ago, when we talked about revenue options and looked at creating $30 million in revenue and we talked about a whole host of things -- resource taxes, hotel taxes, road tolls, all these types of things -- there was almost unanimous denunciation in the House for any contemplation of raising taxes and the cost of living. So we will come forward with a discussion paper and we are going to move on the heritage fund. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 107-16(4): Proposed Taxation Initiatives
In the Legislative Assembly on October 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 107-16(4): Proposed Taxation Initiatives
Oral Questions
October 27th, 2009
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