Finance committee  Yes. A great many of those types of complications in the tax code that have been.... Over a very long period of time.... There's a lot of attention paid to different ones very recently. But there’s a lot of complexity in the tax code, and a lot of the deductions or credits and ad

Finance committee  I think significant progress has been made, and I think that governments across Canada, including the federal government and many provincial governments, are taking positive steps. I think there remains work to be done. I think there are still barriers to economic integration. T

Finance committee  I think we can.

Finance committee  I think I said deductions and exemptions.

Finance committee  Most of the things that people deduct and take credits off of marginal rates.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes, I would say that. I think that obviously as technology advances the returns to investment and high skill go up. There's global competition and markets for these sorts of very skilled and talented individuals, and the wage growth that's been taking place at the top of the inc

Finance committee  Thank you. Well, I'll circle back and say that the reason I said that, and the reason I believe it, is that strong economic growth is absolutely essential for everything we're trying to do for poverty reduction and for generating enough revenue to pay for high-quality social pro

Finance committee  Well—

Finance committee  Yes, the more growth-friendly ways—and the other thing about that is you can use the revenue from that to open up and expand the tax deductions that benefit low-income earners. Circling back to the original question, we don't want to impair growth. We want growth-friendly strat

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to appear today. The very existence of this study reflects the fact that there is a growing consensus around the world that evaluations of national economic performance shouldn't rely exclusively on measures of overall growth in gross domest