Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for coming to present to us today. There are a couple of questions coming out of your remarks and something I would like to clarify, if you could give me one second here. We were talking about the money for veterans. I found your summary tab

Finance committee  Thank you very much. When we talk about debt-to-GDP ratios, I think often people's eyes glaze over and they're not necessarily—

Finance committee  There you go. You also mentioned something about the three pillars of our pension system and the fact that it has positioned us in a very good place as a country, compared with others. You talked about the Canada pension plan, the OAS and the private plans. As we know, there ha

Finance committee  Thank you very much. It's a very interesting time, I guess, that we're living in. One thing you mentioned earlier in your presentation was the impacts that provincial-municipal environments have on the housing market. I was just having a conversation with my colleagues before I

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you once again for joining us. I want to ask you to expand a bit. Foreign direct investment rose to $51.3 billion last year, which was a three-year high, the highest annual total since 2015. The inflows of about $16.5 billion in the final three months were the second-highe

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Thank you. I have a couple of questions for a bit of history on this. For over a decade it was a program that was renewed annually. We certainly heard that over the last decade this was very difficult for the junior miners, if you will. Exploration is very expensive, and raisin

Finance committee  Is there a rationale behind not making it permanent, for providing it for just five years? I get the rationale for changing from one year to five years, in terms of stability and the ability to plan and, as I said, leverage capital. Is there, though, a rationale for not making it

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Thank you. Thank you for being here today. On the Canada training credit, there are a couple of things. You've explained it well in terms of the accumulation, if you will, in someone's account, which can be used more than once. People can do something, not do something for a few

Finance committee  Just so we're clear on the age spread that is eligible for this, there is a recognition that this is important for younger workers as well as for more mature workers who are still looking to contribute right up to, I think, age 64. Is that correct?

Finance committee  Thank you. I came to this place almost four years ago, coming from a background of having to work with people in business, and I came with an expectation— Mr. Poilievre is reading his phone and not listening to the answer to the question he asked me. I came expecting respectf

Finance committee  I'm not stressed.

Finance committee  I'd be happy to.