Thank you, Mr. Robson.
When you talk about investing in workers, the onus is also on Canadian corporations. If I look at the profitability levels—StatsCan has them—they have done pretty decently in the last couple of years. If you look at ROE, return on equity, or ROIC, return on invested capital, they also need the onus to invest in their workers. Many of them do, and I applaud them. I love wealth creation and the whole bit. The onus is also on Canadian companies investing in workers, and you're one of those saying, do a general investment tax credit.
We do know fiscal finances are limited. Think about what the official opposition is asking for with the two policies it has brought up, and what it would cost the fiscal purse. Those are, roughly, the OAS measure and the removal of the GST on new builds. If you add those two measures together, you're roughly getting almost $8 billion of new tax expenditures. How are you supposed to pay for that?
There are limitations on what a government can and can't do with regard to the fiscal purse. I agree with you on that measure there.
Chair, how much time do I have?