Industry Committee on Feb. 9th, 2017

Evidence of meeting #45 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 board.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-25

MPs speaking

Dan Ruimy
Chandra Arya
Earl Dreeshen
Brian Masse
Frank Baylis
Ben Lobb
Majid Jowhari
Alex Nuttall
Lloyd Longfield

Also speaking

Paul Schneider  Head of Corporate Governance, Public Equities, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
Paul Lalonde  President and Chair of the Board of Directors, Transparency International Canada
Denis Meunier  Member, Beneficial Ownership Working Group, Transparency International Canada
Wendy Cukier  Director, Diversity Institute at Ryerson University

10:25 a.m.

Prof. Wendy Cukier

I don't disagree. I think, however, that large corporations that do get this—some of the banks, some of the big IT companies, and so on—are committing to using procurement and their value chain. Some of the tools the government has around procurement and so on are other instruments that can complement the legislation to drive the behaviour.

10:25 a.m.

NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

There's no doubt, but they still don't want somebody else at the table at that time to make the ultimate decision—

10:25 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

Thank you—

10:25 a.m.

NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

That's a real problem that I think needs some oversight.

10:30 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

We're well over time. Thank you very much.

I'd like to extend a hearty thank you to our witnesses. It was a good session we had today, with lots of questions and interesting answers.

We are going to suspend for a couple of minutes. Then we're going in camera for committee business.

Again, thank you very much for attending.

Thank you.

[Proceedings continue in camera]