Thank you all for being here. I know that this was a rather hurried exercise and has been a little disjointed today. Thanks for your patience.
I want to spend a little time, Ms. Reynolds, asking you a few questions relative to what isn't in the budget. You made mention of it: the promise that all parties made during the election campaign about reducing the small business tax. We've also heard from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, and I think the parliamentary budget officer did a report on it as well.
What I'm interested to know is whether your organization has any data that lays out what a cut to the small business tax of, say, half a percent means in the way of job numbers and maybe even on whether not having the cut to the small business tax rate might result in such things as the closure of businesses?
Is there any data that you have to back up some of these issues?