Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I want to focus on Ms. Scoffield's testimony.
Thank you for continuing our ongoing conversation here at the finance committee about the importance of automatic tax filing and, therefore, associated automatic benefits, which I believe for many people living in poverty across Canada could be a game-changer. Too often, at both the provincial and federal levels, we force people to jump through hoops in ways that can feel quite humiliating to a low-income person, a person with a disability or an older person who's struggling. Making more of these processes automated would be of tremendous benefit.
If I can paraphrase your testimony, you spoke about the possibility of acceleration. You estimated that we're aiming to touch five and a half million people by 2029 with this project. You shared that there are estimates that the number of people who could potentially benefit may be double that or even more. Can you speak about what version of acceleration you think would be most responsible?
Given the seriousness of getting this right, I think it makes sense to tread carefully and to make sure that we put in place systems that will work. Do you think that acceleration should focus, for example, on the number of people? Should it focus on the number of benefits that could be accessed through automatic benefits once taxes have been filed? Can you say more about this concept of acceleration?