Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   help to validate why they should move forward as legislation, although not necessarily in the middle of a huge omnibus bill. The question for my colleague is that if we use that standard, how much of the rest of this omnibus bill would be on solid ground? I am thinking of the FATCA

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   government is fighting to undermine through its lawyer in the Equitas lawsuit. I would like to talk about other elements, FATCA. Vancouver Quadra residents are very concerned about the impact of this—

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, on the issue of FATCA, there are probably hundreds of thousands of accidental American citizens who will also be found in this great schism of sending their data to the U.S. Those are the children who were born in Canada, who have never lived in the United States

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   dual citizenship scoops them into this net of FATCA. My office has been deluged with calls from concerned citizens since this initiative by the U.S. was first announced. We do not believe that the government has effectively protected the interests of Canadians.

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, it is fitting that the member talks about rail safety immediately after the discussion about FATCA. The minister has suggested that the reason for the change is to make it quicker for her to change Canada's rail safety regime, and to change it without consultation

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   on FATCA?

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   are hearing this across the country. First of all, with the changes around FATCA, a totally new bill is housed within Bill C-31 that would affect so many people who happen to hold Canadian-American citizenship, and is doing so without answering vital questions around privacy and what

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   single aspect of the bill we are discussing in the House. I know that the member's riding is close to the United States. One item in particular is important in this bill, and that is FATCA. Many people in his riding who are Canadian citizens and do not consider themselves American

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   for the Conservatives but our citizens as well. There is some expertise at the finance committee studying FATCA, but there is also a need to work with other committees. Parliament could be mobilized and engaged more thoroughly if we did not have these kinds of disparate measures lumped together

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, there are many complex aspects of this omnibus legislation. Certainly, even the title, FATCA, foreign accounts taxation and compliance agreement, is one of the most complex. It certainly would, as the hon. member stated, affect people who have no idea whatsoever

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   asked, in part, by my colleague from Saanich—Gulf Islands. I would like to take that one step further. She talked about the constitutional issues related to FATCA. It is becoming increasingly clear in budget bill after budget bill after budget bill that the Conservative government's

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   with the first one, FATCA. What a great deal it is that is buried in this bill. One would think that something like a major tax treaty with our most significant trading partner would have stand-alone legislation and its own debate. That is not so with the Conservatives; they bury it. When

Finance  Mr. Speaker, reading off the latest economic data is not cherry-picking. When there is good news, it is considered bad news by the opposition. FATCA has raised a number of concerns in Canada. The agreement addresses these concerns by relying on the existing framework under

Canada-U.S. Relations  Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask a question today of the Minister of Finance relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, FATCA. On the U.S. side of the border, there are concerns raised that because the treaties have not been ratified through the U.S. Senate, these may

Finance committee  Are you referring to FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act?