Mr. Cross, in April 2015 you wrote a report called “Giving and Taking Away: How Taxes and Transfers Address Inequality in Canada”. In the conclusion, you said, “The degree of progressivity has steepened since 1976, mostly as transfers have increased to low and middle income people.”
You went on to say, “A better approach is to adopt policies that encourage market incomes to grow, rather than focusing on the tax and transfer system to redistribute and possibly stunt income growth.” What else could the government do to get more income growth going?