Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the rough number is “a lot”.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if David has one that's a little more specific.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Anecdotally, there are the same comments from lawyers as there are from tax accountants.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. The challenge isn't with the particular level or target number but with hitting it. Certainly we would like to see a bigger number, and we would like to see the bigger number achieved. It's only in recent years that the Atlantic provinces have woken

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm happy to take that. There's no question that the Atlantic provinces are high-tax provinces relative to most of the others, and some of them have backed themselves into difficult fiscal situations. On the other hand, notwithstanding some history, Nova Scotia, for instance, is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am sure the committee will make the finest, wisest choice available to it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Am I on now?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you to the committee for the kind invitation to address an issue profoundly important to me and to my region. As a disclaimer, for the record, I work for an independent, non-partisan think tank, a charity. I don't speak for any government and may not speak for my board or o

Finance committee  Patrick said 2,000 to 4,000, I was going to say about 3,000 in the skilled trades, which is a big impact, and that's just part of it. It's visible already. If the members walk a couple of blocks south of here, they can see it in the skyline.

Finance committee  As I recall, we pegged the New Brunswick share of the capital expense at approximately $3 billion. That would be absent another refinery or a refinery upgrade. If those things were part of a business plan, you'd see a bigger number. The primary number I'd look for is a $3-billion

Finance committee  Oh, okay. Thank you. I hadn't understood “companies”. You look at the qualifying expenditure or qualifying activities related to acquiring a patent or other forms of intellectual property, your investment in building know-how, which in agricultural markets probably should includ

Finance committee  Generally, they would work alongside them. Personally, I would look to shrink the SR and ED at the same time. However, this is something I would proceed with very carefully, because we have a lot of business processes or mechanisms that are funded through the SR and ED, so I wo

Finance committee  Sure. Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. The long-standing example, I suppose, would be Ireland. We also see them in Luxembourg, although they've been changed a couple of times. A number of European countries are home to the patent box or—

Finance committee  I was speaking with respect to scientific research, as in SR and ED.

Finance committee  These are changes that were implemented a couple of years ago at the federal level, and SR and ED generally provides a credit for a broad range of expenditures that businesses do on R and D. There have been a number of criticisms of the program over the years, including its size