Finance committee  That is exactly what we wrote in our report. Lowering the first bracket rate from 15% to 14% would benefit 83% of taxpayers. Obviously, starting at a lower level, we would capture certain taxpayers and that also implies that the other brackets would be affected.

Finance committee  If I remember correctly, in our report the 83% referred to the first bracket. In our report, we said that if we started with the second bracket, as proposed by Bill C-2, 43% of taxpayers would be affected. Once again, those 43% do not just include taxpayers in the second bracket,

Finance committee  We did not do that calculation. As we said before, we certainly did not determine what the middle class is either. Since we did not define the middle class in our reports, we did not come up with that figure.

Finance committee  Our report takes into consideration all of the tax measures announced in the budget. What you see in our report today is an aggregate measure. It includes that part of the tax cut but not just that amount.

Finance committee  All of the measures that were announced in the budget are included in what you just quoted me as saying. All of the measures in question are set out in table 3 of the summary of our report.

Finance committee  The seven measures or the main commitments that we are talking about that were announced for the next two years are those that were taken into consideration in our report.

Finance committee  Yes, they did. As I said previously in this meeting, the problem is that we received the data and after that were not able to use it. Afterwards, with our communication with the department, it was okay to use the data and to provide it to Parliament. Therefore, this has been solv

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and vice-chairs. I would like to introduce my colleagues. With me today are Dr. Mostafa Askari, assistant parliamentary budget officer; Chris Matier, senior director, economic and fiscal analysis and forecasting; Tim Scholz, economic analyst; Elizabeth Cahi

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Askari will answer that question.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, we were in the other place in front of the committee last night. We discussed that issue. We mentioned to the Senate committee that we will probably in the fall.... We're already working on a work plan about the infrastructure project. We would like to monitor a little

Finance committee  Yes and no. Actually, there was information missing from that five-year period since we had only two years. We finally received information for the five years, but we were told that we couldn’t use it. We subsequently received authorization telling us that the data could be use

Finance committee  The same goes for the requests for information to the other departments. There are still some problems. So far there has been some improvement with the two most problematic departments, but there is still room for improvement and we hope to see it soon.

Finance committee  We have not necessarily analyzed all those measures together, however in the case of the child tax credit, we have looked at some scenarios that have been provided to us. The same is true for the Senate. When we receive a request from someone, such as the one you sent in January,

Finance committee  Would you like me to comment on your remarks?

Finance committee  You are absolutely right. If you would like to know that, we can certainly look into it. However, I can't tell you when it will be done. I must admit that, these days, we are receiving countless cost assessment requests in relation to infrastructure taxes and so on. However, this