Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, I want to express, on behalf of the New Democratic Party, our congratulations to Mr. Webber, not only for his initiative but also for his tenacity in seeing this through. It takes a lot of energy. I don't know if Canadians realize how much energy it takes to conceive of a bill and then work not only to get it drafted and thought through but also to get it to this stage. I congratulate you on that.
The devil is sometimes in the details, so I'm just going to focus a bit on the details of the legislation. It's really a simple bill. It's a powerful concept but a simple bill, made up by adding two new subsections, 63.1(1) and 63.1(2).
Proposed subsection 63.1(1) says, “The Agency [meaning the Canada Revenue Agency] may enter into an agreement with a provincial or territorial government to collect [using income tax returns] any information that the province or territory requires for the purpose of establishing or maintaining an organ donor registry in the province or territory.”
To either Mr. Webber or anybody from CRA, do we know what information they will require in order to maintain the registry?