Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to do a brief summary of the SR and ED, but then I have some specific questions for Ms. Presseault.
I was on the Red Tape Reduction Commission. To be quite frank, as we travelled across the country, I don't think there was one table where we sat that people didn’t complain about the complexity and onerous requirements of the SR and ED credit. It was a whole market industry in itself.
Certainly, the Jenkins report was a very important one. It was an expert panel. I understand they're going to be taking some of the money that was in this program that is complex and very difficult to weave one's way through. It's not being taken out of innovation and that area, it's just being redirected.
Ms. Presseault, in the past, did your members have any comments and concerns on the complexity of this particular program? It’s funny to hear now that it's such a great program when I heard everywhere that it was flawed and had many challenges.