Finance committee  For now—

Finance committee  The only thing I was going to say is that the government has announced it would appoint an expert panel to provide advice to the government on who would qualify for the tax incentives. Currently, as Pierre mentioned, the broadcasters would be eligible for one of the three measure

Finance committee  The details of the panel have not yet been made public. We have been told that it would be done in the coming weeks. Depending on what is being considered, an expert panel will advise the government on what the tax credits should look like. Then, an administrative entity will be

Finance committee  We will have to wait for the decisions with respect to the committee. They have not yet been made public.

Finance committee  The current limits have been in place for a number of years. I couldn't tell you the exact year, but it's still been a long time. I can only assume that the intention was to have another criterion to determine the size of the business, that is, to use taxable capital and taxable

Finance committee  Yes, the intent was to limit the measure to small businesses.

Finance committee  There was an analysis. I'm just looking at whether or not I have specific numbers for you. I don't have them with me, but for the SR and ED program, the change reflects the general composition of the SR and ED program. The manufacturing sector is a sector that uses the program a

Finance committee  Well, the SR and ED program's objectives are to support innovation and productivity, not only the employment that goes with actual research, but generally speaking, all the spillover that comes from generating new knowledge in the economy. There's a lot of academic literature on

Finance committee  There were a number of submissions that our department had received over the last few years. This has been a problem that has been noted by stakeholders over time and that generated the analysis that was done.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  The government wanted to support the print media because the sector is facing great challenges right now. It therefore wanted to put in place certain measures to help members of the industry through a very difficult period in terms of employment, such as layoffs of journalists an

Finance committee  The SR and ED program has two main components. The one that is available for small and medium-sized businesses is a 35% refundable tax credit. The second component available to all other businesses is a 15% non-refundable tax credit. Currently, to have access to the enhanced tax

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  When firms have between $10 million and $50 million of taxable capital, the access to enhanced SR and ED credit is slowly reduced. Above $50 million, they no longer have access to it. Below $10 million, they have access to it.

Finance committee  Yes.