Evidence of meeting #28 for Finance in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
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Conservative
Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
It doesn't say that here, so I wanted to make sure of that. But for Tuesdays we're not sure. That's the answer thus far. If you can give me that answer sometime, that would be great, because we'd like to schedule it. I have another committee I'm on, on Tuesdays, so I need to be able to switch on and off or get replacements.
An additional question, the third of my fourth, is now that we've approved the numbers...I didn't count up how many witnesses we have. Does it fill all these spots, or does it overflow these spots, or are we in okay shape? How do we look?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
The committee agreed to a maximum of 150, and we have 159. That gives us some leeway, because obviously some may not be able to appear and some may not want to.
Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
Very good.
Finally, do we know what we're doing for the site visits? Are we doing site visits in St. John's, Newfoundland? Do we know what we're doing there? Could you send what we're doing at those spots? An organization had an idea, which I passed on, and they'd like to hear whether they're doing it or not.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
The site visits for the central and eastern trip are being formalized now, if anyone has any suggestions. Mr. Paillé submitted one for Lebel-sur-Quévillon.
Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
I submitted one for St. John's, Newfoundland.
Thank you very much. That's all I wanted to know.
Conservative
Robert Carrier Bloc Alfred-Pellan, QC
In June, we produced a report on the self-employed personal services business people working mainly in the information technology sector. The report was submitted to the House on June 10. I would like to know if we have received a response from the minister about the report, since it included a recommendation for the government.
In fact, we were asking the government to examine the Income Tax Act in order to propose legislative amendments based on the nature of the modern labour market, especially for small information technology businesses, so that taxes are fair for small business owners.
I received a copy of the letter that some IT people sent to the Minister of National Revenue. In the letter, they were asking that the recommendation be implemented. These people are in favour of the recommendation in our report and asked that the minister ratify it or go ahead with this amendment. The copy was addressed to the members of the committee and that is how I received it.
Could we at least find out from the office of the Minister of National Revenue whether there will be a follow-up on our report and when we will receive some information? I'm talking about the report that we submitted. It would be nice to at least have a...
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
From the committee's perspective, we have not yet received a response. I'll get Mr. Menzies to comment. My understanding is that by October 18 the committee should have a response to that report.
Mr. Menzies, do you want to comment?
Conservative
Liberal
Paul Szabo Liberal Mississauga South, ON
I will not be travelling with the committee next week. I understand I will be nominated to be a full member of this committee when that process goes through. If possible, I would appreciate getting copies of the handouts from next week's meetings, including the remarks, if they're given, circulated in advance, simply because there is a substantial delay before those matters appear on the website. That would help me keep up with significant presentations.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I think we can get the consent of the committee to distribute the CDs to the two members. They have all the submissions to date.
Monsieur Mulcair.
NDP
Thomas Mulcair NDP Outremont, QC
Yesterday, we worked from two separate lists, in English and in French, so the numbers were different. Would it be possible to take two minutes to confirm a couple of things? Perhaps they have already been confirmed and I might have missed it because the numbers changed depending on the list. I also wanted to check a couple of our suggestions from yesterday.
What we call Canadian Housing and Renewal Association in the English version is called Association canadienne d'habitation et de rénovation urbaine in French. Have we included that?
Thomas Muclair
In the English version, it was number 131, one of the first ones I gave yesterday. It is easy to understand how we might have missed it since I gave it separately. It was the very first one I gave.
Liberal
Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
I thought you added that one; so we are leaving number 94.
NDP
Thomas Mulcair NDP Outremont, QC
Yes, but it is not the same thing. It is something else. I asked for number 131 yesterday.
That's fine. So that's all for us. Thank you.
Conservative
