Colleagues, if I can ask you to find your seats, please, we will begin our second hour of discussion here today on Bill C-470, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, which deals with charities.
We have two departments before us today. We have the Department of Finance and we have the Canada Revenue Agency.
Thank you very much for coming this afternoon.
We have Mr. Baxter Williams, acting general director of analysis, tax policy branch. We have Ms. Sharmila Khare, chief, personal income tax division.
From the Canada Revenue Agency we have Ms. Cathy Hawara, acting director general, charities directorate, legislative policy and regulatory affairs branch; and Mr. Bryan McLean, director of policy, planning and legislation division, charities directorate, legislative policy and regulatory affairs branch.
We'll hear from the Department of Finance first and then from CRA.
We'll start with Mr. Williams, please.