Thank you, Madam Chair.
Professor Bartle, Professor Russell, the more I listen, the more confused I am. We all come from different backgrounds. Some of us are on the left, some on the right and some in the centre. Some of us have experience in finance, others have none.
However, I understood what you said, Ms. Russell.
You said that a tax cut has to achieve the goal better than a spending measure in order to be efficient.
I found that easy to understand that. The people in my riding would find it jsut as easy to understand. Wanting to develop a program to ensure gender budgeting isn't everything; you also have to ensure that people understand what it represents. Otherwise, I'm not convinced they would vote for it, it's so complicated.
In the budget analyses that you've conducted, are there any concrete examples that you could submit to us in writing? We could study them before submitting this idea to the officials who prepare the budgets. Before asking them to insert pages, we would already have something on the basis of which we could tell them that we have before us obvious proof that, if an analysis had been properly done, such a measure would not have been introduced because of such and such an impact. That's what you did earlier in talking about a tax credit for child care services.
Have you conducted any analyses, following measures introduced in the past, that you could give us as examples?