Thank you.
I'm going to ask my question in English, I'm afraid, so if you need assistance.... It's not that my English is good, but my French is a lot worse.
Monsieur Patry, Pierre Patry, I'm surprised to see that you say the recent reduction in the rate of the GST would seem to be a potentially worthwhile way of focusing primarily on low- and middle-income households. Every anti-poverty group, every group that's appeared before us that deals with people who are of a disadvantaged social or economic condition have indicated that the GST reduction is virtually a waste of time for low-income Canadians. The government says that the lowest-income Canadians don't pay tax, so reducing personal income tax is not a way to go. There are lots of other ways of doing it, such as through the child tax benefit, particularly the low-income supplement to the child tax benefit, or by investing in things like tuition access or even social housing and things like that.
Can you explain to me whether you have done any studies to indicate that cutting the GST is a good way to help the lowest-income Canadians?