Thank you, everyone, and good morning, again. Welcome.
This is day two of our western Canadian swing, and we've definitely heard a lot on the issue of tax fairness and our proposed consultation paper.
To Mr. Black, to your comments, we've heard them, and we're listening, and it is a consultation paper. Because I have some insight I can say this. About 25 years ago, a minister of the crown here in B.C., by the name of Grace McCarthy , came to Prince Rupert, which is my hometown, and presented me with an entrepreneurial award of the year for being a young entrepreneur in northwest British Columbia. I know what I did to get it, and I know how hard I worked, and I do have a lot of respect for small business owners, whether their business is 10 employees, one employee, or 1,000 employees. So, there's no need to continue on that route there.
Mr. Black, you did reference a report on the Greater Vancouver scorecard. Maybe someone in your staff can send that over to us via email, because I would love to take a look at it.
In terms of continuing to grow the B.C. economy—you are in B.C., and I want to continue on that—maybe you can highlight three of the major impediments to continue the growth that we've seen in the last decade, ever since, actually, 1986, when Expo came to Vancouver, which was really the catalyst, I think.