Evidence of meeting #26 for Finance in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was region.
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Liberal
John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON
Does that mean tax measures are announced in the budget, but at that moment there is no idea of the cost of administering those measures because that work is done subsequent to the budget?
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Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Commissioner, Finance and Administration Branch, Canada Revenue Agency
For the purposes of the augmentation of the agency's budget through the main estimates, the detailed work takes place after the budget. We will be beginning that very soon.
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An hon. member
As always, even when you were minister.
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Liberal
John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON
I'm not trying to be partisan--“as always”, he says.
This is the normal process, I would assume. Yes. Thank you.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield
Thank you very much.
I don't see any other questioners.
With that, we would like to thank you for coming forward.
We can do one of two things, and I will leave this up to the committee. We can either have a vote that we've examined the estimates and report it to the House; or we can just leave it and it will be done automatically. I really don't have a preference one way or the other. It's up to the committee. At the end of the day, it doesn't make an awful lot of difference. If that is the case, then we'll leave it.
I want to thank you for coming in.
With that, the meeting is adjourned.