Finance committee  Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Finance committee  All right. Thank you, panel. I just want to be clear. In my mind there's a clear difference between what we would call tax evasion or tax avoidance and tax benefits and tax allowances. One is bad; the other is good. I always believed that, if Canadians were to do all of the th

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, this is the finance committee. I think we're here to discuss the financial health of our country. I'm sure Mr. Brison has some individual points he'd like to get across, but he might want to tailor his questioning of the witnesses a little bit more to the issue at hand

Finance committee  A point of order, Mr. Chair.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and presenters. I appreciate your input today, and it's been interesting. I want to start off by congratulating the Royal Bank and the restaurant association, the tradespeople, and every employer that's recognized the immense benefit of taking a chance and p

Finance committee  Gone but forgotten. Where did you go? I was looking over there.

Finance committee  There you go. Mr. Brison and I sat on the finance committee some years ago. He's not as old as I am, so he'll probably remember even more easily.

Finance committee  We talked about this same thing. We talked about the German model, as a matter of fact, and how good it was and how the employees were linked to the education program and they were sitting there waiting for graduates to come out of the schools and go into the trade schools and th

Finance committee  We have to get government, the education system, and the employers all working together. I think if we can do that—and I know there are different jurisdictions—we're going to go a long way to solving this through the job and employment programs. Now I've used all the time. But w

Finance committee  How about Mr. Smillie first?

Finance committee  How much time do I have?