Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
To all of our witnesses, I appreciate your taking the time to be with us. More importantly, I appreciate the work you've been sinking in over the last number of weeks. It's monumental, the effort that you've put together.
I would like to dig in a little bit on the notion that my colleague Mr. Julian has raised at the last number of meetings around the proposed universal income of $2,000 per month. It's an intriguing idea. I agree with the principle that we don't want to see anyone left behind. But when I started thinking about it, I realized that were quite a few big holes. I have a few questions that will hopefully let us examine this a little more closely.
Does anyone here have the median household income in Canada? I don't mean to put you on the spot. We can get into it later, perhaps. I'll follow up. What I'm trying to figure out is how much this program would actually cost if you expended that. There are about 30 million adults in Canada. My back-of-the-napkin math pegs the cost of this annually as being somewhere in the ballpark of $750 billion.
I don't know, Mr. Marsland, if you have this on hand, or if there's someone else better positioned, but I'm curious to know whether anyone has handy the total spending of the federal government from last year.