Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses. You'll be glad to hear that I don't have any skill-testing questions for you because I think you're all very skilled in the categories you are representing.
I do have a question for Mr. Holle on an interesting statistic on how we collect tax dollars, with the federal government collecting 43% of all taxes. You make a bid for decentralizing services. Most of us would like to see a simpler or more simplified taxation system, but it's not something that can happen overnight. Do you really think that decentralizing services would be cheaper?
My concern would be that we'd end up decentralizing services and pass back more to the provinces and end up with a hodgepodge of systems across Canada where some provinces might have a fairly good system and encourage growth and opportunity, and other provinces would be left behind, frankly.