Provided that they are designed appropriately, flexible market-based mechanisms such as taxes, charges, reduction of environmentally harmful subsidies, promotion of trading mechanisms and voluntary environmental agreements are doubly attractive for environment policy: they can help achieve maximum efficiency in implementation while ensuring wider acceptance by industry by limiting costs.

2. For the purposes of subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1, tax payable in Trinidad and Tobago by a company which is a resident of Canada in respect of profits attributable to manufacturing and agricultural activities, exploration or exploitation of natural resources and construction, telecommunications, data processing, engineering or tourism projects or services carried on or provided as part of an active business carried on by it in Trinidad and Tobago shall be deemed to include any amount which would have been payable thereon as Trini ...[+++]dad and Tobago tax for any year but for an exemption from or reduction of tax granted for that year or any part thereof under specific Trinidad and Tobago legislation to promote economic development, provided that relief from Canadian tax shall not be given by virtue of this paragraph in respect of income from any source if the income arises in a period starting more than ten years after the exemption from, or reduction of, Trinidad and Tobago tax was first granted in respect of that source.

3. For the purposes of subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1, tax payable in Vietnam by a company which is a resident of Canada in respect of profits attributable to manufacturing activities or to the exploration or exploitation of natural resources carried on by it in Vietnam shall be deemed to include any amount which would have been payable thereon as Vietnamese tax for any year but for an exemption from, or reduction of, tax granted for that year or any part thereof under specific provisions of Vietnamese legislation and provided always that the competent authority of Vietnam has certified that any such exemption from or reduction of Vietn ...[+++]amese tax given under these provisions has been granted in order to promote economic development in Vietnam.

3. For the purposes of subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1, tax payable in Mongolia by a company which is a resident of Canada in respect of profits attributable to manufacturing activities or to the exploration or exploitation of natural resources carried on by it in Mongolia shall be deemed to include any amount which would have been payable thereon as Mongolian tax for any year but for an exemption from, or reduction of, tax granted for that year or any part thereof under specific provisions of Mongolian legislation and provided always that the competent authority of Mongolia has certified that any such exemption from or reduction of Mong ...[+++]olian tax given under these provisions has been granted in order to promote economic development in Mongolia.

The hon. member has given me the chance to remind him and the House that the Minister of Finance had spoken in his last budget and since then of the tax reductions given to post-secondary students and their parents, the tax reductions given to disabled people and the extra moneys for health care.

4. Issues raised under this Article could include, for example, capital injections, cross-subsidisation, grants, guarantees, ownership, relief or tax exemption, by any governmental entities.