Mr. Chair, I am wondering about the topic of our meeting. We were supposed to talk about the government's economic update and fiscal projections. However, I see that Mr. Lee and people from the Canadian Worker Cooperative Federation have instead provided us with budget advice. I must say that the credibility is not the same in the two cases.
I will now speak to the Conference Board of Canada.
You say that we should withdraw stimulus measures and that we will get back to a balanced budget position in 2015. We are talking about a deficit of $32 billion or $40 billion. We agree in saying that this is a statistical error. Regardless of that, you are not considering any other approaches. You are suggesting we remain very conservative and withdraw stimulus measures, but you seem not to want to talk about taxation measures. For instance, more taxes could be imposed on higher earnings. We could also take a look at exceptionally large bonuses, taxation of businesses, tax havens, and so forth.
Why do you suggest that, over the next few years, we should stay the course and not make any changes at all to Canada's taxation measures? It seems that some measures cannot be touched.