Thank you, Mr. Chairperson.
It must have been a Liberal who compared the loss here to a tsunami or a 9/11. It's like nuclear bombs and income trusts.
I'm sorry, Mr. Chairperson. I just had to slip that in.
The real issue for us here today is that we're all interested in cost savings if they make sense. When you do a cost-benefit analysis, what is the outcome? Do we lose more than we save or not?
I haven't read all your briefs, but in previous testimony when we were on the road, we heard from Rod Taylor in Whitehorse, who said that for every dollar the government pays, we make $37 back. When we were in Toronto, Rod Seiling said this is like giving us an automatic 6% increase in our costs.
So my first question is whether or not that's accurate. By doing this, are we actually costing more to our economy?