David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for that reminder, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to make one last comment. I know there are going to be some difficult decisions to make here. I have a strong stomach and if some of the things he talks about are going to happen here the next couple of years, he will have my full support in that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. I didn’t mean you any disrespect in any way shape or form with my comments. Madam Chairperson, there is a part of me that wants to keep digging here, but I think I won’t do that. I will stop my questioning there because as I sit here I am getting angry. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Roland, did you care to make some comments?

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. As a new Member, I will start to understand some of the shortcomings I think that our process has, Madam Chairperson, and the fact that information can be supplied at a meeting, and I can come into a public setting and want to discuss that information that was provided to us and I can’t do that. I think that there certainly is a shortcoming in that, Madam Chairperson, that I take a great exception to.

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Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Other general comments. Ms. Lee.

Thank you for your comments, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will start out my general comments and I might have a question or two in here. I'm going to start off with stating the obvious, and that is I'm a new Member, as everybody knows, and I almost feel like I've inherited something that really I haven't had my fingertips on. I haven't had the benefit of going through a full budget cycle, I haven't had the opportunity to go through a business planning cycle, and I must say that I do not agree with the increase to 14 percent on the corporate income tax. I agree with the three of the four presenters at the committee...

Thank you. I would ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses in.

Thank you. Mr. Minister, for the record, please would you introduce your witnesses.