Finance committee  Workers and employers do.

Finance committee  The rules are made by the federal government, including you. You just introduced a tax cut. You made the rules for that. The federal government makes the rules but does not pay any of it.

Finance committee  But you make the rules. I didn't write that rule.

Finance committee  Not just the cuts to CRA, but the reallocation of people who do reporting compliance being moved from international business and large businesses to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Finance committee  We don't have an inheritance tax in Canada. I did make several suggestions. I'm just saying that the long game for your considerations today with respect to tax regulation and incidence of tax is to broaden the base. Broadening the base includes introducing something like an in

Finance committee  That report indicated, and was mirrored by the way by one from the C.D. Howe Institute.... So across the political spectrum, the analysis seems to be that there are not many ways of analyzing the original proposal. I underscore “original” because it does sound like the Conservati

Finance committee  I would recommend that everybody read the report.

Finance committee  Taking people off the tax roll at this stage, at the lower end, will not necessarily reduce poverty. It will further reward people who have figured how to do aggressive tax planning. What happens when you raise wages is that you do get a multiplier effect with respect to consumer

Finance committee  There was an appendix in the tax expenditures report of 2013 from Finance that indicated who was taking advantage of the tax-free savings account. It indicated that the people who were most benefiting were people who already had excess money, and they were older and richer—that w

Finance committee  I think there's not much argumentation on that.

Finance committee  What I can say is what I did say, which is that the simple drop in oil prices since July, which is the last time that our growth rate was downgraded, could have up to a $4 billion direct first-round effect on federal revenues alone. I'm not including second-round effects and what

Finance committee  If I come here often enough, you'll get my name just like that.

Finance committee  It is my great pleasure to be here, and it is an honour to be here with all of you. Thank you so much for keeping on. I'm so proud of Parliament right now. I thank you for the invitation to discuss how we can improve Canada's taxation and regulatory regimes. I would like to pres

Finance committee  This is not the time to cut the federal role, which is what is anticipated, but broaden it. There is room to raise rates. But another approach is to broaden the tax base by extending the GST to financial activities and services; capping lifetime contributions to tax shelters, suc

Finance committee  Fair enough, but if you can't get a job, you can't buy anything.