Stephen Woodworth at the Public Accounts Committee

On November 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.

November 6th, 2014 / 4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Stephen Woodworth Conservative Kitchener Centre, ON

I do have a few other questions I want to try to get in.

The next one relates to a graph on page 1.5 of the English version. It's the revenue ratio—revenues as a percentage of GDP. What I understand from that is that our current ratio of revenue to GDP is down significantly in the 1996 to 2001 period, yet our actual revenues are greater. Could you explain how it is that the government is taking in more money, even though there has been a reduction in the revenue to GDP ratio—at least since that earlier period I mentioned?

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