Finance committee  I would tend to agree with you. I think the job, the mandate, of parliamentary committees is to scrutinize legislation and to ensure the legislation is the best possible. As stakeholders we can't scrutinize or go through a 1,000-page document. We have no one expert at that. It's

Finance committee  There's no doubt about that.

Finance committee  Thank you for that motion. To a certain extent, I think that will go to helping parliamentarians perform the role of scrutiny they ought to be performing. Having regular reports is certainly one way of tracking progress. Let me say that it doesn't go far enough, from our point

Finance committee  As I said in my remarks, we looked at ways, and we've had discussions and consultations with a number of stakeholders, including officials and parliamentarians, on how we move forward this discipline. The endgame for us is having a discipline of bringing forward tax legislation o

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. Again this week we met with our volunteers, the members of our tax and fiscal policy committee, and that was the very clear message that we received from them.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. I don't know if you have had the opportunity to ask this question of the public servants who appeared before you. That really is the same question that we have been asking ourselves, which is what are the obstacles to regularly introducing a bill?

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Once again, it is a pleasure to appear before you. This time, it is to speak to you about our point of view on Bill C-48. First of all, I wish to say that we support the tabling of the bill and that we encourage you to move swiftly to pass this important

Finance committee  We think the RDSP is excellent. We've participated in consultations leading up to the proposals included in budget 2012, and absolutely, on the surface, we think this is a very positive impact. Of course, we would like to see things go a bit further. We recommend, for example, ro

Finance committee  Well, there are a number of measures. I'd like to address the gaps, the pieces of legislation that are not in the bill. They are what we've been looking at as the grey areas. Those have not been legislated and we will welcome the technical tax bill when it comes forward. I think

Finance committee  Yes, we've taken notice that the ways and means motion has been tabled. I do want to say something about PRPPs.

Finance committee  Very briefly, we do support the introduction. It's going to start filling that big, wide gap between public and private pension plans, but certainly we are supportive of PRPPs. Now we have to get provinces to adopt the legislation. We have to get employers choosing and offering P

Finance committee  You're absolutely correct. We initially raised this in a pre-budget consultation back in 2004 the concerns of our members about the complexity of the SR and ED tax credit. When we look back, one of the key recommendations from the Jenkins panel was to reduce the complexity. Han

Finance committee  I could go on for many hours, not on SR and ED as much as on the internal trade agreement. We have a lot of experience. We've been directly involved with three challenges brought under the dispute resolution procedures of the Agreement on Internal Trade. Two were person-to-govern

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, my name is Carole Presseault. I am the Vice-President of Government and Regulatory Affairs of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, an organization that represents over 75,000 CGAs across Canada. We are happy you invited us

Human Resources committee  As I said in my remarks, one thing to expedite the process would be to complete our work in identifying bodies across the world, and achieving more mutual recognition agreements. We have four in place. Accounting is very different. There's a high degree of harmonization, not onl