Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and happy new year. I want to say happy new year to the Auditor General and all the public servants from CRA.
I also want to share with you that during the new year, I held my new year levee. There were local small business people coming from Bayview Village and Fairview Mall in my district. They wanted me to extend a sincere thank you to CRA. Your various subsidy programs, including the emergency wage subsidy program, really helped them get through the pandemic. If not for those, they told me in their own words, they would have folded their businesses and probably moved on to work for somebody else instead of being employers creating jobs in my riding.
So thank you very much. I know you have to come in and answer a lot of tough questions at this committee, but I also wanted to take this opportunity to ask you to pass on this gratitude to folks in your department. Thank you.
My first question is for Ms. Cathy Hawara. Could you explain to the committee how or whether or not CRA experimented with the GST/HST revenue model? Did it work or did it not work? Would you explain that to us?