Finance committee  I said many things in the past week. It's true. It's the way that I was operating before when I was director general at the research branch of the library. It's always important. We have a parliamentary clientele. It's important to have input from that parliamentary clientele.

Finance committee  The court is a viable, open door. It's there. I looked at Justice Harrington's opinion and he proposed some parliamentary remedies. I'm following these parliamentary remedies for now because I want to be really sure that if I go back to court eventually I want to be sure the jud

Finance committee  Just before I pass the floor to Mostafa, I think that we have been confronted with this debate before. Provinces will have to adjust to these kinds of situations. Health spending will increase in future years. Eventually they will have to deal with that. It's not only a matter of

Finance committee  I was really happy yesterday. I detected in a comment of Minister Flaherty's some openness to providing details on the $7 billion discrepancy. Everybody was taken by surprise. I was really happy about his openness and his mentioning that he will give some details about that and m

Finance committee  The numbers you mentioned are aggregate numbers, which means that essentially, in total, the result will be what you mentioned. In 2015 the budget will be balanced. After 2015-16, the economy will return to a potential level, which means that we will be in better shape. I'm goin

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. You can call me J.D., like it has been for most of my years on Parliament Hill. Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, vice-chairs, members of the committee, thank you for your invitation and for maintaining the tradition of inviting the Parliamentary Budget Off