Worse yet, the employer still hasn't tabled its wage proposal while it continues to reject ours. The Agency continued to propose concessions and to reject most of our demands. On January 20, it was CRA senior management's turn to present its positions. The PSAC’s negotiator and the research analyst took the entire day before the arbitrator to justify a series of improvements to the collective agreement of our members working at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). That's why I'm saying that the Quebec government will not have a choice other than to lose some of its autonomy to match some of its tax policies with the federal government and the nine other provinces, unless you convince the federal government and the nine other provinces to match some of theirs with the Quebec government-good luck with that.On January 6th of this year, the first of two days of hearings before the Public Interest Commission (PIC) took place. If you don't believe me, check with tax experts, and that's the first answer they will give you: that you need to harmonize. Ste-Marie, but I'll be honest with you: It's not possible. Quebec has its tax act, and Canada has its tax act.

It's not realistic because there are two income tax acts. You cannot have a single income tax return right now in Quebec. What you just said is what the tax experts in Quebec have said, and I would invite the members of the committee to maybe consult tax experts, reports, articles in Le Devoir that I could provide to you where the conclusion is exactly what you just said. So those employees would become redundant. Since the Canada Revenue Agency's systems are not designed to process that, they would have to be modified, which would be complicated. There would be a different tax return under a different name, a combined return for Quebec. Those people process tax returns, but, as the T1 return from the federal government would no longer exist, they would have no returns to process. As jobs would no longer be necessary in that specific region, the government could reassign them to its other tax centres. If there was a single tax return, and it was administered by the provincial government, it would no longer need to keep a centre open in Jonquière. The Government of Quebec tax centres are in Quebec City, on Marly Street, as well as in other locations, but none are in Jonquière. However, it should be understood that the Canada Revenue Agency no longer has a lot of tax centres, with only three of them left. We are talking about the tax centre in Jonquière. I'm happy to hear that you improved your French in Quebec. By the way, congratulations on your French. You were talking about Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

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