Industry committee  Thank you for your question. The legislation does recognize three professional bodies for accountants in Canada. In Quebec in particular there are three accounting orders, one of which is CGAs. Those orders are independent of one another and have different fields of practice. In

Industry committee  Several initiatives have in fact been implemented since the events of 2000-2001, that is, since the Enron scandal and others in Quebec. At present, the existing processes are working well, even if they don't work entirely as might be hoped. However, one of the major standards tha

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee. I would like to thank you for giving us this opportunity to meet with your committee today. We believe that you can help to improve public understanding of the role of the service sector in the Canadian economy, and most importantl

Finance committee  For the cities of Sherbrooke, Quebec and Montreal, there is a different legislative framework. As you can see, it is very difficult for consumers to figure all of this out. We are very interested, particularly because…

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Mulcair, for your question. I will start with your second question. The title in Quebec—and Mr. Pacetti can confirm this—is still “comptable général licencié” [Certified General Accountant]. As part of the festivities surrounding the 100th anniversary of the CGA t

Status of Women committee  I would like to thank you for your time this afternoon and wish you best of luck and safe travels as you undertake the writing of your report. Thank you for having us.

Status of Women committee  In the discussions we've had in preparation for this, we've debated both sides. I think we're coming down on the side that opting in would be the best. Again, I think we need flexibility in the system. Opting in would be the best.

Status of Women committee  I'm not qualified to answer that question, but as we mentioned earlier, we get bombarded that we're not saving enough for our retirement and then we get bombarded that we're richer than we think, to use the slogan. So I don't know what the answer to that is, but it's an area of s

Status of Women committee  It would be interesting to look at an analysis of what different scenarios are out there—what people are saying about what poverty is, and what poverty levels are—to come up with some kind of scale. I don't think you could hit it on the head; you'd have to take a snapshot. But th

Status of Women committee  I just really like it when Louise gets excited. When Louise chaired the board, there were just such amazing times. Also, to add to the point in terms of elder care or caregiving, one of the new measures of course is the EI measure that some of us are benefiting from. But I think

Status of Women committee  It fits in for large employee organizations. I don't know how well it fits in for organizations like Louise's. I don't know what accommodations you would take away from your enterprise to accommodate people and creating caring environments. That's where the government can come in

Status of Women committee  Yes, like the centres of excellence or getting the right information out.

Status of Women committee  I'll take a stab at it.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we're quite balanced. You can talk to us about work-life balance. The first thing I want to do is dispel a myth and state that these one million women entrepreneurs who will be around in 2010 are not becoming women entrepreneurs because it's the easy way out. They work as h

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. A few years ago we convened a round table of women entrepreneurs who were certified general accountants and we looked around the table and talked about the problem today, but we also talked about how we would do it for tomorrow. How do we make sure that young women...