Thank you very much.
I'm glad to be back.
Having just spoken in the House on a motion about imposing a surtax on banks, profitable oil companies and big box stores as a result of the pandemic, I feel compelled to say.... I know there has been some conversation around the table about getting the deficit under control, but of course the other side of that equation is the revenue side of the equation. It's one that is too often neglected in those conversations, particularly in light of the growing gap in wealth distribution between the top 1% in Canada and the bottom 40%, who are sharing just 1% of the wealth produced in Canada. Among those 40%, of course, are some of Canada's most vulnerable people.
At the end of her exchange with my colleague, Mr. Garrison, Ms. Farha was talking about how new initiatives need to be targeted to make sure they make sense and provide real and tangible help to some of those populations.
I wonder if she would like to pick up where she left off and talk about some of the ways good public policy might be able to target those groups. Does she have specific recommendations for this committee to pass on to government?