Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Heady, very quickly, I wanted to go back to one of your graphs, which was entitled “Top statutory personal income tax rates”. These would be the taxes paid by the highest-income earners in the economy. I note, for example, that Canada is considerably higher than the United States. It is always—we talk a lot of politics here obviously—politically extremely unpopular to ever talk about reducing the top marginal tax rate, the top effective tax rate on high-income earners.
That being said, we do have 13,000 Canadian-trained medical doctors working in the United States. Most left at a time when our dollar was low and our taxes were high. There is a need to be somewhat competitive with jurisdictions, is there not? Is that not a broad-based theory that we should be trying to follow in Canada if we want to avoid brain drain?