Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the departmental officials for coming today.
I was really happy with the government's decision to change the definition of “taxi driver”. I'm the proud son of a taxi driver. A lot of my family was in the taxi business. As you know, the industry has been changing, and with the ride-sharing companies such as Uber, they've been put in a very difficult position. They know their business model and they work very hard at it, but then obviously we have a innovative economy and this new app comes out and totally changes the traditional taxi model.
One of the biggest complaints they had was that they work hard and pay their taxes, but Uber has an advantage when it's not charged HST. We've changed the definition. I just want to ask you guys, how is this going to work in practice? Will Uber be collecting the HST/GST portion through their app? Or will each individual driver be collecting it and remitting it to the government?