Finance Committee on Nov. 20th, 2023

Evidence of meeting #121 for Finance in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was grocery.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Competition Act
Canada Pension Plan
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Peter Fonseca
Rachel Bendayan
Philip Lawrence
Adam Chambers
Daniel Blaikie
Stephen Ellis
Gérard Deltell
Gabriel Ste-Marie
Shuv Majumdar
Yvan Baker
Jasraj Singh Hallan
Garnett Genuis
Damien Kurek
Gerald Soroka
Corey Tochor
Julie Dzerowicz
Chrystia Freeland
Marty Morantz
François-Philippe Champagne
Ryan Williams
Patrick Weiler
Rick Perkins
Joanne Thompson
Jean-Denis Garon

Also speaking

Amanda Riddell  Director, Real Property and Financial Institutions, Sales Tax Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance
Mark Schaan  Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategy and Innovation Policy Sector, Department of Industry
Pierre Mercille  Director General, Sales Tax Legislation, Sales Tax Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance
Ian Lee  Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, As an Individual
Keldon Bester  Exective Director, Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project
Marie-Josée Houle  Federal Housing Advocate, Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, Canadian Human Rights Commission
Matthew Boswell  Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada
Timothy Ross  Executive Director, Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
Sara Eve Levac  Lawyer, Option consommateurs
Carlos Castiblanco  Economist and Analyst, Option consommateurs
Anthony Durocher  Deputy Commissioner, Competition Promotion Branch, Competition Bureau Canada
Samir Chhabra  Director General, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch, Department of Industry
Brett Capwell  Committee Researcher

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

We are now on the main motion. Is there any further discussion?

We will go to a vote on the main motion.

(Motion agreed to: yeas 10; nays 1 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

Mr. Chair, before you....

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

Actually, since don't have anything else, we're adjourned at this time.