Thank you, Mr. Chair, for giving me such a warm welcome.
In 2019, I attended a symposium on the single tax return. The economist François Vaillancourt, an expert in preparing tax returns and in the studies on all the issues created by the two tax returns, was at the symposium. During his talk, he was asked to comment on possible job losses resulting from the adoption of a single tax return. He responded that it was “hogwash”—not my words—and that this wouldn't result in job losses. I'll try to make sense of this.
Mr. Ste-Marie, the GST and QST collected by Quebec since 1991 stem from an agreement between the governments of Quebec and Canada. Is that right?