Philip Lawrence at the Finance Committee

On September 25th, 2023. See this statement in context.

September 25th, 2023 / 5 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

I'm not accustomed to those types of answers, especially from former politicians, but I do appreciate that and your frankness and honesty.

When we look at some of the issues, we see that we have very low capital investment—in fact near the bottom of the OECD. Actually, we're predicted, by the OECD, to have the lowest capital investment in the coming future.

I'm wondering, Governor Dodge, if you might be able to share a couple of things you might want to see in the upcoming budget that would help increase capital investment in our country.

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