Finance committee  Sorry—can you repeat the question?

Finance committee  Sure. Yes.

Finance committee  I'm sorry, I don't know.

Finance committee  If the idea would be that the pension contributions and the pension amounts that unions put into employees' pensions are exempt, I actually don't think that would be a helpful change.

Finance committee  I couldn't tell you how much in total the tax deduction would benefit our members. I will point out that for a business to make use of this deduction on their income tax, they have to have an income. About half of businesses at any given time have none, so it does cost them money

Finance committee  I'm sure we would be...able...to provide it. I do think—

Finance committee  —that if the government were to make CFIB membership mandatory for all small businesses, which is actually something we have been offered by some provincial governments, then I think we would have an obligation to provide that information to government in the same way. However,

Finance committee  Thanks very much for the opportunity. I'm Dan Kelly, the president of CFIB. I'm here to speak in favour of this piece of legislation and to give you a little bit of an understanding of how this would work from our perspective. There's been a lot of discussion about whether what

Finance committee  I can hear you fine.