Thank you.
On my list I have Mr. Kmiec and Mr. Albas. If there is anybody else, put up your hand.
I do have one question before I go to Mr. Kmiec. In clause 192, which is the regulation section for the output-based pricing system, it states that they will be able to make regulations on user fees. Do those user fees fall under the Service Fees Act, or are they separate and apart from that?
Can anybody answer that? It's clause 192. It's the regulations under the output-based pricing system. There are a number of areas where you can make regulations, and one of them is everything from the system for tracking, compliance, and accounts in the system, to user fees, to retention of records, etc. Do you know what they fall under?
While I'm at it, I guess if anybody is here from Treasury Board, I note that in our various sections, in every budget implementation act, we end up dealing with a number of departments. User fees, now under the Service Fees Act, go up by inflation every year, which to me is a budgetary matter, even though it's not in the budget. I do believe that this committee should hear from somebody from the Treasury Board on user fees annually, whether those are in the budget implementation act or not, because fees are going up. If anybody is here from Finance on that topic, we'll be asking you to come forward on user fees at some point before we've finished with this budget implementation act.
Has anybody got an answer on user fees?