Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all three panellists for their excellent presentations.
My first questions are for Mr. Poloz.
Mr. Poloz, welcome back. It's nice to see you. I was very happy to hear your comments about the need to harmonize and reduce interprovincial trade barriers. I have valiantly tried to convince the opposition members on this committee of the need for an urgent study for us to move forward on eliminating interprovincial trade barriers. I have been unsuccessful to date.
You mentioned that it would cost nothing and could boost our economic growth by as much as child care—so up to around 2%. As you have indicated, Budget 2021 does have some money to start tackling the interprovincial trade barriers. Can you maybe talk a bit more about the importance of this and some of our initial steps or what some of the next steps should be?