Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. You can call me J.D., like it has been for most of my years on Parliament Hill. Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, vice-chairs, members of the committee, thank you for your invitation and for maintaining the tradition of inviting the Parliamentary Budget Off

Finance committee  The numbers you mentioned are aggregate numbers, which means that essentially, in total, the result will be what you mentioned. In 2015 the budget will be balanced. After 2015-16, the economy will return to a potential level, which means that we will be in better shape. I'm goin

Finance committee  I was really happy yesterday. I detected in a comment of Minister Flaherty's some openness to providing details on the $7 billion discrepancy. Everybody was taken by surprise. I was really happy about his openness and his mentioning that he will give some details about that and m

Finance committee  Just before I pass the floor to Mostafa, I think that we have been confronted with this debate before. Provinces will have to adjust to these kinds of situations. Health spending will increase in future years. Eventually they will have to deal with that. It's not only a matter of

Finance committee  I said many things in the past week. It's true. It's the way that I was operating before when I was director general at the research branch of the library. It's always important. We have a parliamentary clientele. It's important to have input from that parliamentary clientele.

Finance committee  The court is a viable, open door. It's there. I looked at Justice Harrington's opinion and he proposed some parliamentary remedies. I'm following these parliamentary remedies for now because I want to be really sure that if I go back to court eventually I want to be sure the jud

Finance committee  Your first question was about the jobs. In our model, the net result of the constraints and the expenses that were there for the expansion was that number, but it's true that in total jobs were created. The figures are as of September 2013. Net there were over 600,000 more new jo

Finance committee  I want to say two things. I like going to see the dentist, and I still like the atmosphere of parliamentary committees after 25 years. I will answer your question. That chart shows that the period during which individuals are unemployed is getting longer. You can see that drop i

Finance committee  We took into consideration employment insurance as a whole and not just that particular factor.

Finance committee  We did take them into account—not as a specific factor, but as a whole. Basically, our figures cover all those measures, including those applied to seasonal workers. We have no specific measures for seasonal workers. Everything is included in the chart curve.

Finance committee  Exactly.

Finance committee  I was expecting a question on western grains and the Wheat Board, but thank you, Mr. Hoback. I'll ask Mostafa to answer that question.

Finance committee  We haven't taken that into account, the CETA, not yet, because we don't have all the details. As you know, because you went through CUSTA and NAFTA, it will take time before you have the real transition. We can estimate some of these measures, but for the moment they are not incl

Finance committee  I'll ask Mostafa to walk you through that.

Finance committee  The request was made by a member and was specifically for adults 55 years and older. We didn't have a request to do it for the entire—we did not look at the entire cohort of the population.