Finance Committee on June 9th, 2008

Evidence of meeting #48 for Finance in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was volunteers.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-219, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (deduction for volunteer emergency service)

MPs speaking

Rob Merrifield
Mike Wallace
Paul Crête
Massimo Pacetti
Ted Menzies
John McKay
Alex Atamanenko
Jean-Yves Laforest
Rick Dykstra
John McCallum

Also speaking

Ruth MacKenzie  President, Volunteer Canada
Conrad Sauvé  Conrad Sauvé, Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Red Cross
Malcolm Dunderdale  President and Chair, Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary (National) Inc.
Michael Buda  Acting Deputy Director, Policy, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Yves Gingras  Chief, Employment and Education, Personal Income Tax Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance

5:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

No, I'm not going to accept that.

The meeting is adjourned.