I don't want to characterize it as a waste of time, but I think it would be a very difficult exercise. The number of assumptions one would have to make to arrive at a number would make the exercise perhaps of less utility than one would hope.
December 13th, 2010 / 5:15 p.m.
General Director, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance
I don't want to characterize it as a waste of time, but I think it would be a very difficult exercise. The number of assumptions one would have to make to arrive at a number would make the exercise perhaps of less utility than one would hope.
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