Finance committee  Yes. If you were setting up to design a tax cut that was directed towards low-income people, you'd sweeten the GST credit.

Finance committee  You're basically spraying money on everybody, hoping that some drops fall on the low-income people, by cutting the GST.

Finance committee  I would just echo what Dale Orr just said in terms of why The Fiscal Monitor is not a reliable predictor of what we're going to have surplus-wise at the end of the year.

Finance committee  Obviously cutting taxes is really, really away down on my priority list. To support the kind of social transfers that we could, we should choose as a society to use what resources we have here to invest in our people. I think that would be a great idea.

Finance committee  We go with the forecasts we have at our disposal, which are mostly from all the banks.

Finance committee  There was a lot packed in there.

Finance committee  My interest here is that if the fiscal position of the government is obvious to all Canadians, then we can have a legitimate public debate. I didn't like it when they were low-balling surpluses, and I won't like it either if we pass a bunch of tax cuts that we can't really pay fo

Finance committee  I set aside the employment insurance.

Finance committee  I have lots that might be done about employment insurance, but this is not the forum where I can really give a whole discourse on that.

Finance committee  If you are applying productivity criteria, a lot of the stuff in the last budget wouldn't meet it. Often these measures are politically motivated. Second, if you're going to bet the farm on corporate income tax cuts, that's the only thing you're going to be able to do, if you c

Finance committee  I will only say we put out this forecast, but the finance minister does not take me into his confidence. I don't really know what goes on inside the finance ministry, and there may be reasons to think that any number of expenditures could be higher than I put them here. In some

Finance committee  On the tax cut versus program spending question, there has been a program of corporate tax cuts for many years now. It would be useful to examine whether that program has remedied the productivity issues that are being identified or whether it has remedied the competitiveness iss

Finance committee  Hello. I want to consider only one question with my five minutes: does the federal government have enough money for further tax cuts?

Finance committee  I want to consider only one question with my five minutes: does the federal government have enough money for further tax cuts? After many years of large budget surpluses, many Canadians may assume that Ottawa has no problem finding extra cash. In our opinion, the days of large

Finance committee  Sorry, I'm struggling with the question.