Finance committee  That's correct. The point here is that it's a growing problem. Despite some initial efforts by the G-8 and the OECD to begin to address this issue, we're a long way from getting a handle on it.

Finance committee  I have worked in the past for the Ontario Fair Tax Commission.

Finance committee  I have a Master's degree—

Finance committee  —in adult education, so my specialization is more in the area of—

Finance committee  No, but I do have some background in tax and work around taxes.

Finance committee  We have individual donors and organizational donors.

Finance committee  Yes, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, churches, quite a wide range of groups support us.

Finance committee  I have learned a lot about taxes over the years. You don't learn just in school. In fact, sometimes experiential learning—

Finance committee  Particularly with the offshore tax informant program, the provisions for the protection of informants is not clear enough. I know this from personal experience, having talked to several people who had information they wanted to come forward with. As you know, some of the tax chea

Finance committee  Yes, I think these are important steps forward, but they aren't adequate to the size of the problem that we're facing. I welcome them, but I'm hoping the government will consider further steps because this is a big challenge. I agree with Mr. Keddy that it's a difficult problem

Finance committee  Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the parts of Bill C-31 related to tax havens. We support the implementation of several measures that aim to go after tax cheats using tax havens that were announced in the 2013 and 2014 federal budgets, which are contained in Bill C-3

Finance committee  In my opening my remarks I mentioned how surprised I was when I was in the lock-up and found that as a key theme in the last federal budget. The steps taken were welcome, but they were initial steps. We're suggesting in our brief another $10 billion of loopholes that we feel ar

Finance committee  There are some tax credits in the not-for-profit sector that are a problem as well. The finance committee did a study of this, and we did present at that time as well, and we identified some of them we thought were problematic, again because they unfairly benefit upper-income Can

Finance committee  Yes, there are both. I was talking about the charitable.

Finance committee  We're also concerned about the high maximum contribution levels that are allowed for RRSP and the tax-free savings account. The RRSP level is way beyond the max. At $23,000 a year, it's way beyond what most ordinary people could contribute. So effectively, that kind of a high max