Industry committee  I can tell you that where the harmonized taxes existed in the provinces you mentioned, if the provincial portion applying to books was applied for such a short period of time and then removed, it would be very hard to measure. In effect, it's all refunded. There isn't a provincia

Industry committee  Yes. I don't think there's a provincial tax in Canada on reading material right now. If there was, it was for a short period of time, so we can't measure the effects of the retraction of it. As far as the GST goes, I can tell you that on behalf of the students at Queen's Univer

Industry committee  It's $80,000 in one year, so you multiply that across 100 schools and that percentage decrease in the GST becomes a significant savings for students. I don't have those figures on hand. I can only use our own experience. We think, getting back to my point, you should simply stri

Industry committee  I was there in 1999. Unlike the Copyright Act that's being discussed today, at that time they did ask for a lot of contributions from Canadians and the industries that were involved. The problem is that it is very weak. I believe the analysis that surrounded the regulations said

Industry committee  No. What happens is that publishers can distribute books that have their origins in the U.S. or the U.K. and extract 10% or 15% more. An individual can go around both the bookseller and the publisher and buy without that tariff, but it does not provide an advantage for an America

Industry committee  Good morning. My name is Chris Tabor. I'm here as a representative of Campus Stores Canada. I am also the manager of the Queen's University campus bookstore. I'd like to thank the industry committee for giving me the chance to speak today. Campus Stores Canada is the national tr