Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses for their excellent presentations. We hope that you and your families are all safe and healthy during this pandemic.
I have three questions. I'll try to go through them quickly.
The first is for Ms. Higgins. We are living with profound inequality that has been exacerbated during this pandemic. We've seen billionaires adding $53 billion to their wealth, and bank profit figures this week that were through the roof. Yet, as you point out, making investments in national child care would actually mean an economic boom for Canada.
Do you think it's a question of choices? Right now we have no wealth tax. We have no excess-profits tax as we had in the Second World War. We lose $25 billion a year to overseas tax havens. We spend billions of dollars on supports to the oil and gas sector. Do you feel that we should be taking a different set of priorities, investing in things like child care and putting in place a fair tax system so that the wealthiest and most privileged actually have to pay their fair share of taxes?