Evidence of meeting #87 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was capital.
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NDP
Hoang Mai NDP Brossard—La Prairie, QC
All right.
Regarding the amendments made to the process, has the financial responsibility of the Government of Canada been increased?
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Director General, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of Industry
There is not a significant impact on the Government of Canada. At most, the penalty would be $5 million and that would be in an instance where the federal government is found to have a measure in place that is an irritant for internal trade and then continues to refuse to remove that irritant.
Even if it were found to have something that was an irritant, there are opportunities for the government to take steps to become compliant and a penalty would not be levied, so there is a relatively minor risk to the federal government.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Thank you.
Are there any questions? Okay.
We want to thank our officials for presenting these sections to us so well and for responding to our questions. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon.
Colleagues, I'm going to recommend we adjourn the meeting. We have divisions 15, 17, 22, 23, and 24 of part 4 to deal with on Monday.
I would remind all of you that if you have not yet submitted your witness list to the clerk, please do so as soon as possible in terms of witnesses you'd like to see on the parts and divisions of the bill that the finance committee is dealing with.
You have a point, Mr. Harris?
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NDP
Dan Harris NDP Scarborough Southwest, ON
I apologize, and we've let the officials go, but there were a couple of questions we missed asking today. Would it be possible to ask for a follow-up, not to ask them to come back, but to ask those questions through you and ask for a written response?
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NDP
Dan Harris NDP Scarborough Southwest, ON
Division 7 on the Canada pension plan. It would be question 2 regarding disability in the Library of Parliament's briefing notes.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay. The finance official is in the room, so we'll just clarify that.
On division 7 it would be question 2. I'll ask our analyst to provide that note to finance.
Was the other question on division 11?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Division 11, again from the Library of Parliament's briefing notes, question 4.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay. I'll ask our analyst to deal directly with Finance on that.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
We'll send that to the rest of the committee as well.
We will see you Monday at 3:30. Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.
