Finance committee  I'm not aware of any expenditure review committee as such at this moment in time. The Treasury Board of Canada is certainly looking at the strategic review process, which is ongoing. Regarding advertising, I understand that the Privy Council Office is providing some central manag

Finance committee  Within CRA.

Finance committee  I can only say that I'm not aware of any.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee to present the Canada Revenue Agency's 2010-11 supplementary estimates (B) and to answer any questions you may have. I have with me this afternoon my associate, Mr. Filipe Di

Finance committee  That is correct.

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  I'll start. Perhaps my colleague can finish. A good example is that 58% of our T1 returns are coming in electronically now. On the T2 returns, our corporate returns, the electronic transmissions are not as high, but the addition a few years ago of the 2D bar code for the T2 retu

Finance committee  We'll have to get back to you, sir, on the actual amount of money we collected. By the definition of the program, the money we collect, minus some administrative charges, is then sent back out in payments to the provinces, so by definition it has to be larger, but I can give you

Finance committee  Our officials are consulted by the Department of Finance prior to the budget, on a need-to-know basis, to determine whether initiatives are administratively feasible and that sort of thing. That doesn't allow us to--

Finance committee  Well, in the beginning we are consulted on whether or not it is doable in the broad sense: Can I build a house on that piece of land?

Finance committee  Once we're there, the question is how much that house will cost, and that is the point we're at right now. We're working with the budget now released. We're able to circulate it more broadly in the agency and get our officials to work on it to determine what's required to make it

Finance committee  When I say we were consulted, that means a week or two weeks beforehand. Those consultations are conversations, discussions. No hard-core work is done, and no systems changes are done until the budget is tabled and Parliament has had an opportunity to get at it.

Finance committee  You will see them in supplementary estimates later this year and then in the main estimates to the extent there is a follow-on cost.

Finance committee  Basically Treasury Board wanted to open the opportunity for departments to put forward any cases they had under the objectives of the FISI program, and they reviewed these over the course of the fall and made decisions on them in December. Given that, it was too late to get them

Finance committee  I believe it was announced in budget 2006.