Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all the witnesses for coming here.
I guess my question is going to be focused a little bit more on Ms. Norgang, and continuing your conversation about the workers income tax benefit.
I'm so pleased to see that we're dealing with this. I think this is an approach that's long overdue, and one that is similar to the initial idea of about 20 years ago when there was the launch of the national child benefit. If you have people of similar income but one is working and one is receiving benefits, you want to make sure that the advantages to choosing to work remain the same, that there is no rational avenue for people to choose social assistance because they can get more benefits that way. We want to level that playing field, because fundamentally, I just believe that people love the dignity of work, the ennobling act of being at work.
You suggest making the payments happen more often. Like my colleague opposite, I'm just trying to figure out what necessarily would be the advantage to that. Could you walk us through this, why you think there are clear advantages to it working that way? That would be very helpful to the committee.
Take your time in doing this, because whatever testimony we hear, that's what we can pull off in the final report.