I guess what it comes down to is that it may not apply to this bill, but that said, there are two ways of getting at this question. One is as a question on the Order Paper, and the other is having Mr. McGowan provide it at committee. Either way, the information will become available, I gather. Mr. McGowan agreed to try to find the information. We'll leave it at that.
With that, thank you both for your detailed answers on a very complicated bill. It's a technical bill, I guess, which has a lot of implications. Thank you for the background material and your answers to our questions today.
With that, we shall turn to committee business. I neglected at the beginning of the committee to go through the committee report, because it really related to the witnesses we're having today.
You have the 13th report, the report of the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure of the Standing Committee on Finance. Do you want me to read it, or does somebody want to move that, and we'll see if there's any other business? I'll read it:
Your Subcommittee met on Thursday, January 31, 2019, to consider the business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations:
1. That, with respect to Bill C-82, An Act to implement a multilateral convention to implement tax treaty related measures to prevent base erosion and profit shifting:
a) the Committee invite departmental officials to appear on the Bill on Tuesday, February 5, 2019;
We just heard from them. The report goes on:
b) the Committee invite witnesses to appear on the Bill on Thursday, February 7, 2019;
Those witnesses have been invited.
c) the Committee invite the Minister to appear on the Bill during the week of February 18, 2019; and
d) members of the Committee submit their prioritized witness lists to the Clerk of the Committee no later than 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 4, 2019
That's been done. Finally:
2. That, pursuant to the Orders of Reference of Monday, January 28, 2019, the Committee study the Supplementary Estimates (B) and the Interim Estimates and invite the Minister of Finance and the Minister of National Revenue to appear prior [to] the end of March 2019.
That is the motion, moved by Mr. Fergus and seconded by Mr. Sorbara.
Is there any discussion? Peter.