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Finance committee  In order to do the study that you requested and also a study that a senator requested us to do on the tax gap, we requested information on the microdata from CRA. Essentially, we wanted to look at the taxpayer data. CRA takes the view that it is not permitted to give us that inf

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  In our view, you are right, but we are taking a pragmatic approach, in the sense that we want to get the data one way or another to do the work for you and for Parliament. We have reached a point where we have essentially no choice but to agree to the conditions that they have pr

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  Certainly, anytime you lower any kind of trade barriers of a free trade agreement, this would have a positive impact on the Canadian economy in terms of the level of activity and employment. Then one has to look at the details of that and see exactly how that is working out, but

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  As I said, in principle, yes, but I think we do have an issue with the trade and exports in Canada. When you look at the trend in the contribution of exports to Canadian GDP since 2000, we have not actually seen any contribution from exports to the Canadian economy, which is some

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  We normally do not make political recommendations to the government. It's not part of our mandate to actually comment on policy and what the government can and cannot do.

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  What is really important in terms of the fiscal situation is the long-term sustainability of the fiscal structure. The studies that we have done in providing a fiscal sustainability report—and the last one was issued in November—show that in fact with the government cuts, the c

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  It's based on the data that existed in terms of the number of jobs that were created during that period, and the number of temporary foreign workers that existed at the time. It's a very crude kind of estimate. It's very hard to develop that and look at the estimate of the tempor

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  We have not done that. As I said—

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  It is possible to take a look at that and get back to you. Other than having a need to have the data for the labour shortage, we also need detailed data from the government on the temporary foreign workers program.

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  We don't have that. We have not requested that, but we can.

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  As we noted in the report, we looked at all the measures introduced by the government since budget 2012, both the stimulative measures and the restrained measures, and it combined the two. We have evaluated the impact of those, and based on that, there is an impact of about 0.5%

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  As I mentioned in the labour report that we did, we looked at the skills gap based on the Beveridge curve that economists use. It's the relationship between the vacancy rate and unemployment rate, and as I said, the data does not support that. I realize that some employers asso

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  We did a report on the labour market, with the intention of providing the status of the current labour market. We also looked at the issue of labour shortages and skills mismatch. In that report, based on the data that we received from the Conference Board of Canada on the vaca

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  At the regional or at the professional level for various occupations—

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari

Finance committee  Changing.

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Mostafa Askari