Finance committee  Thank you. Yes, we will.

Finance committee  That is absolutely true.

Finance committee  Our findings are based on eight types of families. As I said, that's the scenario we had to follow. We studied the case of lower income families with two young children, that of low income families with older children and other types of families with higher incomes and fairly older children.

Finance committee  There is a two-fold objective and that's one of them. We know that the tax credit is reduced according to the income level. Actually, by lowering the second tax bracket, those families will benefit from it more. That is one of the findings of the report. That said, you are absolutely right.

Finance committee  I don't think so. As I said, they were families with lower income and two older children. That may well be a very typical family in the sense that those types of families exist. It may not be representative of all families. It is not a significant sample, but there are low income families with two children under 10 years of age, and so on.

Finance committee  We have not necessarily analyzed all those measures together, however in the case of the child tax credit, we have looked at some scenarios that have been provided to us. The same is true for the Senate. When we receive a request from someone, such as the one you sent in January, we comply with the request that has been made.

Finance committee  Would you like me to comment on your remarks?

Finance committee  You are absolutely right. If you would like to know that, we can certainly look into it. However, I can't tell you when it will be done. I must admit that, these days, we are receiving countless cost assessment requests in relation to infrastructure taxes and so on. However, this is certainly something we can look at.

Finance committee  According to the routine motion, which I had mentioned in my presentation, we must look at all private member’s bills that are significant in material, fiscal and financial terms. We prepare a report and you regularly receive a letter when the order of preference is published. Sometimes, some measures and private member's bills are not part of the list of measures that will be studied.

Finance committee  The same goes for the requests for information to the other departments. There are still some problems. So far there has been some improvement with the two most problematic departments, but there is still room for improvement and we hope to see it soon.

Finance committee  Yes and no. Actually, there was information missing from that five-year period since we had only two years. We finally received information for the five years, but we were told that we couldn’t use it. We subsequently received authorization telling us that the data could be used and published, which is what we did.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, we were in the other place in front of the committee last night. We discussed that issue. We mentioned to the Senate committee that we will probably in the fall.... We're already working on a work plan about the infrastructure project. We would like to monitor a little bit more the expenditures that will be invested in infrastructure in the upcoming months.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and vice-chairs. I would like to introduce my colleagues. With me today are Dr. Mostafa Askari, assistant parliamentary budget officer; Chris Matier, senior director, economic and fiscal analysis and forecasting; Tim Scholz, economic analyst; Elizabeth Cahill, financial adviser-analyst; and Jason Jacques, director of fiscal analysis.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Askari will answer that question.

Finance committee  Yes, they did. As I said previously in this meeting, the problem is that we received the data and after that were not able to use it. Afterwards, with our communication with the department, it was okay to use the data and to provide it to Parliament. Therefore, this has been solved.