Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  I already mentioned in our proposal that we think cutting the GST further, in lieu of cutting personal taxes, is probably not the right way to go.

Finance committee  Our general position is that if you don't have a tax base, if you don't have a population base, you're not going to be able to afford to hire people to look after the population. Our population in Saskatchewan is aging fairly quickly and there are going to be a lot of calls upon the health care system.

Finance committee  Any tax cuts that you're considering as a committee would have to be very focused. The problems that you mentioned in the United States with Reaganomics were a clear case of somebody following a doctrine and not checking that the results they expected were being obtained. I again give the example of Saskatchewan and the personal income taxes.

Finance committee  Again, our most recent research on taxation, and particularly corporate taxation, was relative to Saskatchewan. A lot of the recommendations that we made to the Vicq commission here in Saskatchewan were acted upon by the Minister of Finance of Saskatchewan. One of the comparatives that we use, of course, is the comparison to the province to our immediate west, but we also compared our corporate tax regime and personal tax regime to those of the five provinces west of Quebec.

Finance committee  I think you've hit everybody at the end of the table. Thank you. Quite frankly, we have not done a very detailed outline as to what the impact of any of the tax cuts would be on the Canadian federal budget. We did that work in some significant detail with the recent corporate tax review by the Province of Saskatchewan.

Finance committee  Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to address your panel. I am a volunteer member with the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce, and my role is co-chair of the investment and growth committee. In my day job, I'm a certified general accountant in public practice, so I live and breathe the things you guys and ladies talk about on a day-to-day basis.