Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks for coming in.
This is in relation to Ms. Mathyssen's comment that she was surprised to learn that maybe some of the things from other countries have shown that productivity could be hurt by some of these things. Some of us work a fair bit in Africa and also in Latin America. And it's true that there have been mixed results from all of that. We've been monitoring it for the last five years. Part of it has been because of a basic prejudice against women being involved in things like micro-enterprises and other things, and people will not buy their products. I think it's something that might lead to those kinds of indications. But they're not necessarily truly economic; they're based on culture. I think that's important to remember.
The Department of Finance has many different areas that are all independent of one another. There are things like tax policy, interprovincial transfers, and so on and so forth. Why was it that the basis of tax policy was chosen as the thing that would have a GBA done? Why was it not the others as well?