Thank you, Chair, and welcome, Minister.
Minister, last year, the Trump administration undertook a massive tax reform both on the corporate side and on the personal side. Two of those measures were to reduce corporate income tax rates and the second one was to bring in accelerated depreciation. Various groups advocated for changes in our tax rules to ensure we remained competitive. A.T. Kearney put out a report a few months ago saying that we had moved up the ranks and are number two in the world, slightly behind the United States.
I would like to hear some colour on our decision-making in terms of the measures we put in place to ensure companies in my riding in Vaughan—as you know, Martinrea, Magna and, in York Region, a number of large manufacturers—can continue to invest in Canada and continue to create good middle-class jobs.