Finance committee  That's page 11, footnote 7. The reason we didn't break out all of the job impacts by category was simply the size. These are relatively small amounts of money.

Finance committee  Actually, I disagree. It does. The net is that. There are spending reductions and then there are spending increases. The net is the sum of those two things.

Finance committee  I could. I would only say that again we're talking about.... We tried to focus on--

Finance committee  What's really lacking is the government's report on fiscal sustainability and intergenerational equity that they promised to release, I believe, in 2008. It would help the situation to have long-term economic, fiscal, and demographic projections, looking at the entire fiscal stru

Finance committee  I'll try to shed a bit more light on those job figures. The estimate and summary table 1 that we have for 2014 show a loss of 43,000 jobs, and this applies specifically to the spending reductions in budget 2012. But again, that's net of these positive measures. So yes, we hav

Finance committee  Yes. I would say that even recently the issue about fiscal drag has been very non-contentious. The TD's chief economist yesterday said: I completely agree with the assessment that there is going to be a lot of fiscal (government) drag, the real question is how strong is the pri