Finance committee  I think that would be more effective. As I said, it's on the ground at the municipal level where you have.... We don't have a homogenous country. There are different issues here in Victoria than there might be in Toronto, Montreal, or Halifax.

Finance committee  Yes. I often think when you have direct funding at a municipal level there is a lot more input. It's community based, and the needs of each community are a little bit different. So it's difficult to have a national strategy and say how we're going to do this when each community h

Finance committee  First, look at it from the standpoint of the economic burden on a business. I run a business. I have to file my GST input credits and returns. I'm doing the same amount of work to file for 5% as 7%. That means, similarly I would presume--this is pure conjecture--the Department

Finance committee  That's certainly the challenge, because I don't know how the GST rebate as currently structured, that comes to people on a quarterly basis, is necessarily going to address the inequities in income if you have to wait every quarter to get the money to pay the additional taxes you

Finance committee  Thank you. When you people are looking for the proper balance between the private sector being taxed and the citizen--the proper balance between the two--I think when you're evaluating that you have to look at what our needs are in terms of human and financial capital for the co