Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for joining us. This is for Professor Callan on the presentation he provided to us on the impact of tax benefit policy changes from 1993 to 1997 and from 2003 to 2007. My question is simple.
If I look at the chart—and by the way, I'm on the finance committee, so it's more of a finance question—I see that the impact of tax changes in the period 1993 to 1997 affected the middle class a little bit positively and the poorest section negatively, and then it changed in the period 2003 to 2007. I would like to know what the fiscal capacity of the government was in the 1993 to 1997 timeframe compared with the fiscal capacity of the government in the 2003 to 2007 timeframe, and did that change significantly?