Finance committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. I'm very pleased to be here on behalf of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. I'm so proud and so glad to be here in Canada's Parliament and to see everything back to business after last week's troubling events. I'm honou

Finance committee  It certainly is a cause for concern, but we don't see it going far below $80. It will go down to about $80.

Finance committee  Well, it would be great to have more information, because one of the challenges, for example, is that our economic regions are so broad that when we look at unemployment or the skills.... Vancouver Island is huge, obviously, the parts within it, so I think I would be helpful to h

Finance committee  Yes. We're talking about the most recent changes that happened in June of this year. We would like to take a look at what happens with business and whether they have been able to cope—

Finance committee  No, I'm not.

Finance committee  I'm not sure exactly what—

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I'm certain. We've met with people in the department and I know that they did quite a lot of analysis. They did extensive research.

Finance committee  We do, absolutely.

Finance committee  We don't look too closely into forecasting oil. We see generally it's on a downward—

Finance committee  Absolutely. Business certainly recognizes that it has an important role in providing that training. The challenge is that there are certain areas and certain regions where they've done everything possible. They've tried desperately to recruit people and they're just not finding t

Finance committee  That's what we're hearing from our members, sir. They tell us that very aggressively

Finance committee  Absolutely we would support more spending, with borrowing costs for 10 years at 2%.

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely

Finance committee  Absolutely. Payroll taxes are the most harmful types of taxes. As Corinne pointed out, it's those for which it doesn't matter how much income you have; it's just a tax on jobs.