Public Safety committee  We have not done that in my time on the file, no.

Public Safety committee  Actually, my colleague Ken Medd is here. He deals exclusively in that FNGST, working with first nations governments, so I'll pass to him for that issue.

Public Safety committee  Not at all.

Public Safety committee  We do not have an estimate at this time of federal revenue losses as a result of contraband activity. Certainly what you can see in the public accounts is a decline. It hit a peak of $3.5 billion in 2003-04, and then over the next four years we've seen it decline to roughly $2.5

Industry committee  It's a little broad and a little beyond our scope of expertise, to be honest with you. Certainly a major oil company allocates a lot of capital to build a refinery. The various income tax provisions that are available and the environmental regulations would be key factors they

Industry committee  We'd look at long-term capital assets that are not covered in the current budget. We'd have to look at it and get back to you. It's beyond my area of expertise.

Industry committee  Buy your gas during the week. We all live in neighbourhoods; we've all seen the prices go up and down on weekends and holidays. Certainly I'm aware from speaking with my neighbours as the tax guy—they always quiz me on how much tax is in it and what not. Most are surprised that t

Industry committee  Actually, if you look at the numbers, one thing that's very interesting was your mention of a 0.8% increase. That's actually far lower than the long-term 10-year trend for gasoline, which is a 1.7% increase each and every year. So what we've seen actually is that prices have had

Industry committee  GST revenues do vary with the price, but the excise tax revenues do not vary with the price.

Industry committee  For the consolidated revenue fund, revenues from the GST would increase as gasoline prices increased, yes. Revenues from the excise tax on gasoline are linked only to the volume of fuel that is sold.

Industry committee  Volume has gone up over the long term. What we've seen over the last three years is actually a plateau, a stabilization point.

Industry committee  For what year was that?

Industry committee  That's right, and that was coming off the drop in the previous year.

Health committee  Yes. I worked for several years on tobacco taxation. That element is a very key part of the anti-tobacco strategy to discourage smoking through education, through health warnings, through regulating the marketplace, and through taxation to ensure a high price. I think one of the

Health committee  One of the things we tried to give a sense of in our presentation is not only the actions that have been taken to date but also the fact that in looking at taxation instruments there is a broad array of factors we have to consider, and also that taxation is just one of many tools