Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning. My question is addressed to both of you; you could answer it in turn.
I expected that you could talk to us about some ratio. The day before yesterday, we looked at the proportionate amounts in the aggregate revenues of the Government of Canada... There is some sort of ratio between income tax and consumer taxes. I may be wrong, but I believe that you have not talked about this.
In terms of our study, this is still a concern. Should we at some point increase consumer taxes in Canada in order to decrease income taxes so that at the end of the day the revenues remain the same? This is another aspect of our study.
There are some aberrations within the fiscal system. During the same presentation, we have seen that couples, individuals or single-parent families earning between $35,000 and $40,000 were not really being encouraged to earn an additional amount of $5,000 because then they would only keep $1,500 of that money. One must admit that it is a problem. We will have to correct this eventually.
I would like to hear you both on this.