Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's interesting. If I understand correctly, the institute of the public service would, in a perfect world, conceive of a single return to make it simple but one that ought to be administered by the CRA. If I understand the Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec, they think kind of the opposite, that there ought to be a single return and it ought to be done by Revenu Québec.
If I understood Monsieur Brière correctly, having two returns is a symptom of the problem rather than the problem itself, in that the definitions of income and the complications are the problem rather than the fact that there are the two returns and that one cannot be addressed without the other.
Somewhat lost in this discussion, I guess, is the poor suffering Quebec tax filer who has to file two returns to two different institutions. I am not a Quebec tax filer, and I have never filed a Quebec tax return, but one doesn't need to be to grasp just how inconvenient and expensive this must be, with a very high incidence of filers being compelled to seek professional assistance in filing their returns. We have to solve this somehow and get our Quebec tax filers some relief from the burden of compliance.
I would be happy to have each witness comment from that point of view, the point of view of the Quebec tax filer and of delivering some relief from the cost and burden and complication of just complying with the law.