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Finance committee There has been a lot of research on the optimum size of government. A lot of studies say 30% of the economy is government. We're at 42% or 41%. I think there's lots of room to make governments smaller and pass the money along to private citizens.
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee That's why we have independent think tanks that accept no money from governments. Our goal is to push the envelope at the Frontier Centre. We hear from politicians privately that they agree with us, but it's very difficult to move the ball. Again that's our role. I think this can
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee Again, I'm arguing in favour of diversity, experimentation, and innovation. I look at the public sector in general in Canada, and it's not a world-beater. I could look at Australia, or New Zealand, or other places and ask, “What can we learn from them?” We tend to have a bias t
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee You also have 10 laboratories of experiments where provinces might want to try new things, and what will happen is that there will be a sorting out and eventually the things that are working the best will be adopted by other provinces. What we have now is a system that is artific
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee You're creating private sector growth. What I'd like to say is that while I would encourage the government to do the European trade deal, the trans-Pacific deal has also been a great opportunity for western Canada, where my think tank is based. What I would like to stress is that
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee It is absolutely the right path.
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee You should be reducing taxes and reducing debt. Again, there is a major opportunity for the government to look at structural reform within the federal civil service. I would encourage it to look at some of the best practices from other countries. A simple thing like bringing a
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee Yes, lower taxes are good. Again, we would go toward general tax cuts, raising the exemption. We would tend not to go toward boutique tax cuts, or tax credit programs, which has been the practice before.
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle
Finance committee I thank the committee for inviting me to come all the way here from western Canada. I want to talk about three things today very quickly, three of the 30,000-foot type of items. Number one is fixing the mismatch between taxing power and the federal government's jurisdiction.
September 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Peter Holle