Evidence of meeting #50 for Finance in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was million.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Anthony Pollard  President, Hotel Association of Canada
Kim Furlong  Director, Federal Government Relations, Retail Council of Canada
Christopher Jones  Vice-President, Public Affairs, Tourism Industry Association of Canada
Dawn Hardy  President, Local 90006 (PEI), Union of Taxation Employees
Alex Fritsche  Economist, Canadian Tourism Research Institute, Conference Board of Canada
Karin Zabel  Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Finance, Canadian Tourism Commission
Kevin Boughen  President, Global Refund Canada Ltd.
Brian Ernewein  General Director, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance
Jeremy Rudin  General Director, Economic and Fiscal Policy Branch, Department of Finance

1:10 p.m.

Liberal

Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Minister, we're all over the map because we don't get you here regularly, but I want to ask you a question on the estimates.

I don't know if it's possible, because I'm a bit uncomfortable voting on all these millions and billions of dollars, but can we get a little more detail from your department on some of these, on how much is operational? One of the questions in particular was the FINTRAC question. You answered a question saying the money was not for the future for Bill C-25, but can we get some kind of detail on the $8.9 million? My direct question is on what Mr. McCallum was asking: how much in terms of administration costs, whether it's through Finance or CRA, are these new tax initiatives going to cost? That's my question. I think it's a fair question. and I think it could be answered right away. because we asked it the last time we were looking at the budget. I think that's a fair question.

For some of the other items where it's a little bit more complex, there's not that much information here. I'll leave it up to your officials as to what type of format they can provide in it, but maybe for operations and administration salaries we could find out what we're looking at in terms of additional moneys.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1:15 p.m.

Conservative

Jim Flaherty Conservative Whitby—Oshawa, ON

We'll try certainly, and we'll get you the best answer we can if this is not sufficient.

1:15 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Brian Pallister

Thank you, Minister, for your time today. We appreciate your being here.

Committee members shall now vote.

CANADA REVENUE AGENCY Department Vote 1a--Program expenditures--To authorize the transfer of $18,166,000 from Human Resources and Skills Development Vote 10, Appropriation Act No. l, 2006-2007 for the purposes of this Vote and to provide a further amount of..........$66,943,698

(Vote 1a agreed to on division)

FINANCE Department Vote 1a--Operating expenditures..........$7,648,400 Canadian International Trade Tribunal Vote 25a--Program expenditures..........$360,859 Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada Vote 30a--Program expenditures..........$8,990,349

(Votes 1a, 25a, and 30a agreed to on division)

1:15 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Brian Pallister

Shall the chair report vote 1a under Canada Revenue Agency, and votes 1a, 25a, and 30a under Finance to the House, as agreed to on division?

1:15 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

1:15 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Brian Pallister

Before we adjourn, I wish the committee members all the best back in their constituencies, as we pay tribute to our veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf. I look forward to seeing you again a week from Tuesday.

The meeting is adjourned.