Growth and an increase in demand will not, however, be achieved by cutting wages or by longer working hours, but by taking the tax burden off the low and middle income groups, through public investment, capital-widening investment by businesses and by increasing private consumption.

Growth and an increase in demand will not, however, be achieved by cutting wages or by longer working hours, but by taking the tax burden off the low and middle income groups, through public investment, capital-widening investment by businesses and by increasing private consumption.

To attain this goal important steps have been taken such as the elimination of the role of citizenship judges and the introduction of significant administrative and regulatory changes aiming to expedite the process more efficiently such as increasing the daily number of hearings, establishing group hearings, extending business hours, et cetera.

The Joint Chair Landon Pearson presented the Fourth Report of the Sub-Committee on Agenda and Procedure as follows: Your Sub-Committee met Tuesday, March 10, 1998 to consider the future business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations: It was agreed, That Committee staff be instructed to schedule witnesses for hearings outside of Ottawa and that for hearings in major centres witnesses be grouped under the following headings: 1) Fathers / Non-Custodial Groups 2) Women’s Groups 3) Grandparents Groups 4) Youth 5) Legal Community 6) Medical / Therapeutic Groups and; that each witness grouping (two or more) be all ...[+++]otted one hour, with five minutes per presentation and that one hour per day be allotted for groups of individual witnesses (four or five per group); with five minutes per presentation; and, that walk-on witnesses be permitted at the discretion of each sub-committee.

I had the pleasure of speaking for about a half hour with the group of young Montreal business persons.