Now we’re dealing with a number all of us can understand. So we’ve got a $38 million problem. This $38 million problem is being dealt with in this fiscal budget and the next fiscal budget, from what we hear. We’ve heard from both the deputy minister and the Minister that this is a fluid problem. We don’t have a good understanding. We’re at the mercy of the federal government. Things change, seven years forward, seven years backward, if anyone does CRA type of initiatives knows that.
We’re dealing with a problem where we’re really at the mercy of a lot of unknown variables. We’ve heard from the department here that we’re going to be doing a rolling five-year average to try to mitigate and try to take a dart and a dart board to try figure out what our taxation is.
I want to shed a little light for the Department of Finance. They’re not alone. They’re not alone. The Auditor General of Canada has written a nice little report for the federal government on their own books on how they collect their own taxes, so we’re not unique here. I wish we were, but we’re not.
The federal government has also been given a little bit of a heads-up that they’ve got to clean up their backyard in terms of how to do predictability better with their federal forecasting. So I’m glad we’re doing this exercise, Mr. Chair.
The question I still have remaining is we’re still looking at being very aggressive in the 2014-15 Main Estimates given what we know today. What key indicator do we have now that would tell us that we are going to see the lifts that we’re seeing, especially in personal income tax from I’m going to call them the revised-revised 2013-14 estimates? How do we know that?