Scott Armstrong at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 14th, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 14th, 2012 / 4:05 p.m.

Conservative

Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank our guests for being here today.

I'm going to focus first on the issue of timing, because I think we've had a lot of discussion from many intervenors on the issue of timing.

First of all, would you agree that moving the start of the fiscal year probably is pretty much a non-starter, since doing so would be so invasive for the economy and for our relationships with the provinces and when the provinces needed to get their transfer payments? Am I accurate in saying that's probably not the direction we should go in?

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