Thank you very much.
This is an academic question. I know some people in the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer watch this committee and they follow what's happening, as do people in the Department of Finance.
Are you familiar with the term “dynamic scoring”? For example, there are three taxes the government has increased—the luxury tax, the capital gains tax and the carbon tax—and for each of these examples, the government produces what they believe to be the increase of revenues that will be associated with those taxes. The problem is that they present the gross taxes of revenue increase without adjusting for the net effect of lost HST revenues, specifically as it relates to the luxury tax, or a reduction in GDP and, therefore, a reduction in general tax revenues.
Would you support either the Parliamentary Budget Officer or the finance department including dynamic scoring, or what is commonly referred to as dynamic scoring, in their models?