Dennis Bevington at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2009 / 11:35 a.m.

NDP

Thank you, and thanks to the witnesses for being here today.

Mr. Forbes, in regard to the northern residents tax deduction, it did go up by 10% but that's not in line with the inflation over 20 years that degraded that. Why did you decide to put it up by only 10%?

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