Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank all the witnesses for being here today.
To start, I would like to come back to Mr. Galbraith's comments.
Dr. Galbraith, when we get the Good Housekeeping seal of approval from the chair of the economics department at McGill in terms of being on the right track for economic growth and creating the right framework for economic growth...and I suspect that in talking about Canada's excellent record your reference was relative to the G-7 in particular.
I really want to pursue a couple of the things you've said. In particular, I think you know how to do a great presentation, because you left us all wanting a little more. You closed your remarks with the fact that evaluations of programs that have existed for a long period of time might very well be an opportunity for us to pursue to make sure
…that we maximize our investments.
I'd really like you to expand on that point, because so often in these committees, from our perspective we are very focused on allocating scarce resources in the most responsible manner possible for the taxpayers of Canada. Obviously, we want to achieve the best results possible with those investments. Sometimes people think you just have to build on previous investments. In regard to your comments about the evaluation of programs that have existed for a long time, if you would be kind enough to expand on those, it would be wonderful.