Evidence of meeting #4 for Finance in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was infrastructure.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Andrew Jackson  Senior Policy Advisor, National Office, Broadbent Institute
Scott Ross  Director of Business Risk Management and Farm Policy, Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Bilan Arte  National Chairperson, Canadian Federation of Students
Stephen Tapp  Research Director, Institute for Research on Public Policy
Craig Wright  Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, RBC Financial Group
Jan Slomp  President, National Farmers Union
Alex Ferguson  Vice-President, Policy and Performance, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
Cindy Forbes  President, Canadian Medical Association
Anne Sutherland Boal  Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nurses Association
Toby Sanger  Senior Economist, Canadian Union of Public Employees
Ann Decter  Director, Advocacy and Public Policy, YWCA Canada
Chris Bloomer  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
Alex Scholten  President, Canadian Convenience Stores Association
Andrea Kent  President, Canadian Renewable Fuels Association
Kurt Eby  Director, Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations, Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
Donald Angers  Chief Executive Officer, Centre of Excellence in Energy Efficiency
Charlotte Bell  President and Chief Executive Officer, Tourism Industry Association of Canada
André Nepton  Coordinator, Agence interrégionale de développement des technologies de l'information et des communications

8 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

Thank you very much.

Ms. Bell, if you do find the number for the return on investment for a dollar of advertising for international tourism, could you forward it to the clerk?

February 17th, 2016 / 8 p.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Charlotte Bell

[Inaudible—Editor]

8 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

We can't continue to fall behind in terms of international tourism as we've been doing.

I come from Prince Edward Island and I know how much the Japanese tourists mean to us as a result of Anne of Green Gables.

I have just one comment before we close.

Tomorrow the meeting will be here at 11 a.m., rather than what was on the original schedule. It will be in C-110 because we have to do a video conference, and this is the only place we can both do video and have it be televised.

One organization can't come tomorrow, so another organization will be added to tomorrow's 11 a.m. meeting and that will be the Canadian Pharmacists Association.

With that, I want to thank the witnesses for their presentations. There has been a lot of information provided here this afternoon and evening.

Thank you very much. We'll adjourn the meeting and see you at 11:00 tomorrow.