Finance committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for coming today, and to those of you on the phone. Catherine, it's good to see you again. One of the things you have said, and that has been reiterated by others, is that we really are in exceptional circumstances. This is not something—to your p

Finance committee  Great. Thank you for your patience—I know it's not easy to be outside the room and listening to this without being able to see us all. I'm going to ask you a question around SMEs' options—or optionality, maybe—to apply for exceptions and relief, within tariffs imposed over this

Finance committee  Well, if it gives you any comfort, Chad, the SME in my riding that was able to get the exemption has 17 employees.

Finance committee  The process, in fact, was streamlined to respond to exactly your comment. You've just highlighted for us that we need to do a better job of letting SMEs and other folks who rightly.... I can certainly see how the assumption is that it's an intimidating process. I'm not saying it'

Finance committee  Just as a point of clarification, I think, when my colleague talks about “no industry participation”, if he remembers, the witnesses yesterday did talk about the panel that has been struck, in which industry is very engaged. Part of that conversation was about what mechanisms w

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the growing number of you who are here with us today. On that point, I had the pleasure of being at a presentation by the deputy chief economist of the TD Bank on the B-20, which my colleague has referred to. In fact, he said their position wa

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Certainly it's something that this committee has heard a lot about. It has been very well received, especially by consumers. I have a lot of seniors in my riding, and they were very happy to see some of the work we're doing around this issue. On pensions, I

Finance committee  Okay.

Finance committee  Oh, what a great forward-thinking opportunity for us. Thank you.

Finance committee  I'm good.

Finance committee  Thank you for coming. I know time is tight these days. We really appreciate your coming. I have two questions. Certainly I and many of us have had the pleasure of reading a number of your reports, and your predictions are pretty accurate. The details in those reports help us ma

Finance committee  Thank you. I think airlines, as an example, have certainly gone to plastic and no cash.

Finance committee  Your office also made some projections tied to climate plans. You did confirm in your report that eight out of 10 Canadians are better off under our plan. I have two questions for you. Have you considered evaluating the Conservative pamphlet that came out yesterday? Have they ask

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Finance committee  Thank you.