Finance committee  With the changes that were made to our office in terms of our independence, we were provided with a larger budget and are in the process of hiring new people and expanding the office. Hopefully, we'll be ready to answer many of these questions over the next 12 months. We are get

Finance committee  We have a highly dedicated staff. They have a significant amount of experience in doing this kind of work, some of it for the government, in the past for the Department of Finance, the Bank of Canada, and other organizations. That's part of it, obviously, but we have the expertis

Finance committee  You have very good questions. Unfortunately, until we actually do a further study on this and see exactly what we can find in the data from the CRA, it will be very hard to answer your questions and say exactly what the conclusion will be. We know that there is a tax gap, no doub

Finance committee  Well, I guess it will bind the government to the total amount. It's not clear that they will have restrictions on the specific components of that.

Finance committee  We haven't much recently but—as my colleague mentioned—we are working on a labour market report for the fall, and those are some of the things we may be looking at.

Finance committee  We have not taken that specifically into account. We haven't really done that kind of a disaggregated labour market assessment for this projection.

Finance committee  We have not done that, no.

Finance committee  With regard to the $20 difference between the Canadian price and the international price, not all of it can really be reduced by having the pipeline. Historically, there's something like a $10 or $12 difference between those two, so the additional amount, maybe the $8 to $10, is

Finance committee  I assume so, yes.

Finance committee  We are actually working on a report on the main estimates that should be out probably in about 10 days. We are looking at that. The way we understand it is done, there isn't a lot of constraint on the government in terms of how they use that $7 billion. The language that is used

Finance committee  Well what it means is that there are obviously some gaps in what the government planned to spend on infrastructure and what has actually happened over the past two years. That in itself means there will be less spending by the government, where it will help the bottom line in tha

Finance committee  Well, certainly what we are saying is that one of the issues here is that the capacity to get that oil to market is limited now because of the lack of pipeline, and that certainly affects the price.

Finance committee  What I said was that it has an impact because of the lack of capacity to get that oil to the market, so it certainly affects the price of that oil.

Finance committee  No, we haven't done any studies specifically on that.

Finance committee  We have no plans to do that at the moment.