I call this meeting to order.
This is meeting 112 of the Standing Committee on Finance. Our orders of the day, pursuant to the order of reference of Friday, March 8, 2013, are to do with Bill C-48, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, the Excise Tax Act, the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, the First Nations Goods and Services Tax Act and related legislation.
Colleagues, I want to welcome officials back from the department to our clause-by-clause consideration of the bill this morning.
Obviously this is a fairly sizable bill. I'm proposing that we do our clause-by-clause consideration in parts. There are eight parts to this bill, and there's one schedule.
Is it okay if I proceed in that manner, colleagues?