Finance committee  In my notes, yes, just very quickly. Amend the tax on split income regime; lots of people have appeared before you on that. On those rules, while there may be a compelling policy argument to have an anti-income splitting regime, this regime just needs a complete rethink. Number

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. McLean. As I said in my opening remarks, I'm by no means an economist, so from a common-sense perspective, I'll give you my two cents. It's a bit scary in terms of how high that is and how quickly it rose to that level. It then raises the obvious question of how

Finance committee  From a common-sense perspective, I think it's going to exacerbate an already real problem. The average Canadian can't afford a house. I look at my kids; they're at the age when it would be great if they could afford a house. With prices rising like crazy, they just can't afford

Finance committee  It would be incredible. There are already a tremendous number of job creators who are spooked by what's to come. Our office—and I know MNP and others—has been tremendously busy working on people leaving Canada who Statistics Canada, frankly, hasn't reported on yet. When they fina

Finance committee  I would respectfully suggest that a lot of the moves that have been done in the past few years be revisited and looked at to encourage capital investment into Canada for exploration and production at a very high level. That's what I would recommend.

Finance committee  Okay, thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here today. Happy Valentine's Day. I hope each of you can share a romantic day with someone special. Like the pre-eminent Professor Arnold, who I'm certainly not in the same league as, what I'm going to talk about today is not very rom