Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. McKay, for bringing forward that point. Yes, actually, we would support that. We have harmonization in the Atlantic provinces and something akin to that in the province of Quebec.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. St-Cyr. When the GST was first brought in around 1990-1991, the government acknowledged the anomaly I referred to. It was then that the government introduced the national input tax credit. From then on, when a car dealer purchased a used car, the

Finance committee  That is a good question, Mr. St-Cyr. No, I would not say that all of the recommendations we have made are equivalent. If I were to make one single recommendation today, it would be to charge the GST on all sales, wether it be a sale by a dealer or an individual.

Finance committee  Yes. We have the figures, Mr. St-Cyr. Unfortunately, I do not have them here with me today, and I do not wish to make a statement on that.

Finance committee  Absolutely, sir. You have a very good read of the situation. In fact, we believe it is one of the primary reasons why you have that whole curbsider effect, where people are purporting to be licensed auto dealers but in fact they are clandestine private sales, really. Of course, t

Finance committee  Absolutely, sir. As part of the process that we utilized in order to be able to develop our white paper, which we tabled earlier, we reached out to all of our constituents across the country. We held a number of forums, focus groups, round table meetings--and that culminated with

Finance committee  I wouldn't go that far, sir, but it certainly is inconvenient and troublesome.

Finance committee  That's a good point, Mr. McCallum. I don't recall questioning the professionalism. The point we are making is that we believe there should be coordination between the various departments so that we end up having audits conducted that are efficient and to the point, as opposed to

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee members. I applaud your committee's commitment to finding ways to keep Canada competitive and prosperous in a changing world, and it is exactly competitiveness that I am here to speak to you about today. Many of you may know that the Canadi