The government opposes this amendment. It would require that the government report information that is not currently collected for statistical analysis purposes by the CRA. Furthermore, related information on the number of individuals claiming a capital gains deduction for either a qualifying business transfer or a qualifying co-operative conversion will be included in future publications of the report on federal tax expenditures.
This report is customarily tabled in the House of Commons along with the main estimates. It's for similar reasons to the last amendment. It's duplicative and it's not statistical information that the CRA regularly collects. For those two reasons, we're opposed.
Thank you.