Evidence of meeting #150 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was regulatory.

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MPs speaking

Also speaking

Kim Moody  Director, Canadian Tax Advisory, Moodys Gartner Tax Law
Tim McEwan  Senior Vice-President, Policy and Stakeholder Engagement, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of British Columbia
Paul Medeiros  Managing Director, North America, NSF International
Michael MacGillivray  Owner, Kirkview Farms

10:10 a.m.

NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

No, no. Don't apologize. What we're looking for are recommendations. We gazette things, so I'm just wondering out of this, though.... What I'm thinking of is that example you provided, so perhaps we need to gazette not only in that province but also in the province adjacent to it or within a certain geography. It's almost like something that we would do in land practices when we change a zoning somewhere and the area is notified. That's what I was looking for. It's a more formal process. It's related to the other questions I had on that.

Mr. McEwan, if there were two changes—and I know this is hard—in regulatory practices or a sharp kind of message that you would have on the best recommendations, I would like to provide you the opportunity to recommend what we could do for small businesses. Is there anything we could focus on that would be low-hanging fruit for this committee to recommend as a change in the way we do regulatory practices?

February 21st, 2019 / 10:10 a.m.

Senior Vice-President, Policy and Stakeholder Engagement, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of British Columbia

Tim McEwan

I guess what I would say is that in my general remarks I spoke to the architecture of regulatory reform within government. I'd really like to double down on that and impress upon this committee what instilling a culture of continuous improvement starts with, and I gave the elements of the architecture in British Columbia. I think it's critically important to look at that and to put that kind of architecture in place.

10:15 a.m.

NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

That's fair enough.

10:15 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

Thank you very much.

With that, we will end this portion of the session. We have to go to some committee business.

I want to thank all of our panellists for coming in today and presenting and for answering some of our questions. There are definitely some challenges ahead of us. We look forward to our report. Thanks very much, all of you.

[Proceedings continue in camera]