Thank you very much.
I'd first like to thank the witnesses.
I noted that Ms. Thibault took care to mention something related to each of our ridings, including the Rimouski CLSC. That was very well thought out.
However, my first few questions will be for Mr. Conway because I really liked his comments on tax simplification, among others. In that respect, I would like to repeat what my colleague, Ms. Nash, said and that I also pointed out in the speech I gave in my riding, which is that, in 1917, the Income Tax Act was 10 pages long, whereas today, it has 3,300 pages. This is a very important topic, and I will come back to it later.
Something caught my attention. You said that you might be open to a GST increase, meaning it should not be out of the debate. Beginning in 2006, the government reduced the GST by two percent. A number of economists—and I, too, share this opinion—said that, if the government wanted to reduce the tax to stimulate economic growth, reducing sales tax like the GST was not the best way. Instead, they advocated an income tax reduction.
Do you share that opinion?