Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of you for coming to Portage and giving us a new venue for holding these hearings in Manitoba.
I think this concerns everyone and I have to ask about it. I think this is about hard choices.
I listened to Trevor, and it's something we've heard from chambers right across the country. You say we've got room for both the GST tax cut and personal income tax cuts and all of these other cuts for the corporate sector, yet I don't think we probably disagree with what our universities and colleges are saying. You also have publicly called for federal dollars for the floodway, expansion opportunities for the Public Health Agency, support for the Manitoba gateway strategy, and support for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
You can't have it both ways. Are you prepared to put tax cuts on hold to do some of these important items that will actually build a more competitive environment?