Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for appearing before the committee today.
I would like to drag the debate back to Bill C-28, as that's what we're here to discuss today. One of the things that have come up time and time again for the committee when we've been in our pre-budget consultations is productivity. We were at third place overall in productivity, and now we're in seventeenth. Can you talk about the importance of giving a timeframe and reducing corporate taxes to 19%, and then 18.5%, and also the elimination of the corporate surtax, with respect to improving productivity in Canada and investment?