I'll be as succinct as I can, but it's going to take a bit of work.
Ms. Bittman, I appreciate the analysis you have in your document, and I want to say I agree with one statement you made in your presentation, about the nineties when the Liberals of the day did their cutting.
I worked at Bell Canada, and in 1995 Bell Canada executives put 10,000 jobs up on a wall and said cut them. In fairness to Bell, they gave people a reasonable package to people to leave. In fact, I was one of them at the time. But they woke up one day and said they'd lost 80% of their expertise and couldn't do business, and they hired a good number of them back on contract.
When we look at your analysis, I think of the following. Day in and day out in this place, we hear from people with genuine, honest needs. We have 90-some presenters who are coming before us.
On your first page, you say that “Analysis shows that corporate tax cuts have neither stimulated economic activity, nor resulted in increased business....” And then you go on to quote the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
In your analysis, can you find any place where the business community, which has benefited from these corporate tax cuts, has reinvested back into the economy? We're being told that right now there's something like $500 billion being held by corporations, but I'm curious as to your analysis. Have you seen any evidence of that?