Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Those are the areas where we are weak. The reason we have low productivity is that we don't have enough business investments, and the reason we don't have business investments is partly that we don't have enough large firms in the economy investing.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Robert Asselin. I'm the senior vice-president of policy at the Business Council of Canada. We represent the heads of 175 businesses, employing over two million Canadians. I want to convey two simple messages to you today. The first relates to fiscal policy in perilous times.