Finance committee  I'll speak to that. Yes, we did provide advice to the minister.

Finance committee  Without being specific about the documents, we did provide material with advice to the minister.

Finance committee  If I may speak to that, I guess if we were incompetent, we wouldn't admit to it.

Finance committee  As for the numbers—

Finance committee  I would say the minister spent quite a bit of time on the numbers the other day, and on the reasons why he and we believe they are conservative. Yes, I think the answer he provided the other day was that he did take—apropos the discussion of extending the transition period from f

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, first of all, as a lawyer, I'm presumed to be innumerate. I must confess to approaching these more intuitively, as some of the previous witnesses did, in suggesting that a revenue loss must exist or else the markets wouldn't have reacted the way they did, or else, a

Finance committee  I'm sorry.

Finance committee  My verification of your accuracy depends only on my arithmetical skills. To get to the right answer I'd have to multiply $3,000--I've taken that number and not the precise number you used--by 15.5%. That gives me something in the order of $475, I believe.

Finance committee  On the numbers you provided and assuming they buy these through monthly passes, that would be right.