Evidence of meeting #199 for Finance in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Blake Richards  Banff—Airdrie, CPC
Clerk of the Committee  Mr. David Gagnon
Gillian Pranke  Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Assessment, Benefit, and Service Branch, Canada Revenue Agency
Bob Hamilton  Commissioner of Revenue and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Revenue Agency
Peter Fragiskatos  London North Centre, Lib.
Geoff Trueman  Assistant Commissioner, Legislative Policy and Regulatory Affairs Branch, Canada Revenue Agency
Ted Gallivan  Assistant Commissioner, International, Large Business and Investigations Branch, Canada Revenue Agency
Daryl Boychuk  Expert Advisor, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance
Trevor McGowan  Director General, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

No. The amendment, in order to be technically correct.... There already was an a), b), c) and d), so his a) had to become d).

12:55 p.m.

Banff—Airdrie, CPC

Blake Richards

His a) would be d), just so I have my frame correct. I'm going to do that really quickly, and then I will carry on.

What would become point d) then? These are the things he would like to see included in any motion as far as giving a bit more context around what the study would look like.

He has “current data security risk and threats posed by domestic and foreign actors to the private data information of Canadians”.

Obviously, people would have concerns on this particular point, and it seems to me it's a fairly relevant thing for us to be considering when we would look at something like this. Even the government has indicated it has concerns about this in other areas of public policy.

When you're talking about banking, I think this would be one area where Canadians would be most concerned about their private information, their banking information. We already saw that in the government's attempts to be able to grab that private banking information from people.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

I hate to interrupt you, Mr. Richards, but the time of adjournment is before us. Although that clock says two minutes to one, I think it's slow. I think it's one o'clock. If the technical people could get that clock on the right time, it would be helpful.

With that, the meeting is adjourned.