Evidence of meeting #40 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was kpmg.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Janet Watson  As an Individual
Lucia Iacovelli  Canadian Managing Partner, Tax, KPMG
Debi Daviau  President, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
James Cohen  Executive Director, Transparency International Canada
Ryan Campbell  Economist, Technical advisor, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Alexandre Roger

May 6th, 2021 / 5:55 p.m.

President, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada

Debi Daviau

Yes, 100%, Mr. Julian.

First of all, thank you for the compliment. I agree. I think my members are amazing. They're incredibly passionate about the jobs that they're being asked to do on behalf of Canadians, but they need some help. They need the government to take a look at gaps in legislation.

Those gaps are easily seen when we look the resulting court cases and where the CRA is losing as a result of those gaps. We've even offered to some of the MPs on this committee whom we've had the opportunity to meet with that we'd be happy to work with our auditors and decision-makers to try to identify or home in on where those gaps are.

At at the end of the day, for us, the most important point raised by Mr. Cohen is that investments need to be made not in the number of resources, but in how those resources are structured and how those people are able to access the right tools and training to be able to do the job they're being asked to do.

6 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

Okay. We will have to end it there.

I do want to very much thank witnesses for their presentations today and for spending the extra half an hour with us, which wasn't scheduled.

I will be back to committee as soon as possible on how we go forward from here.

With that, thanks to all of you.

The meeting is adjourned.