Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning to all the witnesses. Thank you for being here.
I'm sure Canadians have been eagerly awaiting these changes for I guess more than a decade, about 11 years now. Now we have a bill of 1,000 pages, and in all likelihood the changes themselves are not really controversial, because they're technical changes based on announcements already made by the government. I believe what is controversial is the fact that Canadians have had to wait more than a decade to get these changes made into law.
This has been raised with the witnesses, other witnesses who have been here, as well as with you. We also asked these questions to the Minister of State for Finance, and he said the reason these changes were not made on a more timely basis was that there were minority governments in place, and then the government, when it was a majority, was dealing with a recession—or I guess even before, when it was still a minority government—and later still dealing with the after-effects of the recession when it was a majority government.
Ms. Presseault, we have a Westminster parliamentary system, as does, obviously, the British government. Let me ask you how they would deal with a situation of minority government and recession if they had a sunset clause. Given that these changes are not controversial, in your mind are these things genuine concerns to the enactment of a sunset clause for technical tax changes?