Agriculture committee  I think the recommendation addresses that issue indirectly when we say that both CBSA and Global Affairs should work together to make sure the licences are respected. This would imply that there will be some sort of data collection and better import monitoring of what crosses the

Agriculture committee  They did share evidence that they had intelligence regarding the marinated chicken industry. That's why they focused specifically on those importers.

Agriculture committee  We didn't look at the pre-clearance per se, but we noted in the report that there was.... There are two heads to the beast. You have GAC on one side and CBSA on the other side, and they don't really collaborate. That, in itself, was a weakness in the program.

Agriculture committee  This would be in addition to what we recommended. What we noted was not so much an issue with the pre-clearance, but more an issue regarding the fact that the rules were not followed. It was not an issue of misclassification, per se; it was an issue of the importers importing agr

Public Accounts committee  Is the question addressed to us, or to the Department of Finance?

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we looked at what other countries were doing. Exhibit 1.4 refers to New Zealand, Finland and the United Kingdom. In their performance reports on their venture capital activities, they include this type of performance indicators. I would also like to add that the depar

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I think one can see an exit strategy as the ultimate performance indicator. When the government decides that the system is sustainable enough and the ecosystem is led by the private sector, and it's time for it to divest itself of the investment made by the taxpayers,

Public Accounts committee  We noted that in the beginning, these people had a lot of work to do to convince private investors to join the project. As we indicated in the report, the fee structure and the tracking of performance, which was a hindrance for the entrepreneurs, were part of their concerns. Con

Government Operations committee  The fact is that the basis used to prepare the main estimates is not the same as the one used in the budget or the public accounts. In the budget, in the Department of Finance's numbers, you will see embedded in the expense row the cost of those tax expenditures. When you look at

Government Operations committee  Tax expenditures would include, for example, refundable tax credits like the GST tax credits, which are not reported in the main estimates, but are reported in the public accounts. One could argue that the tax system is used to determine the eligibility for the tax credit and not

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, when a tax measure is adopted through legislation, it is approved by itself every year through the legislation that gives the authority to the Department of Finance, or CRA in this case, to issue a tax credit, if it's a tax credit. That's something different from the w

Government Operations committee  Those tax-based expenditures can account for tens of billions of dollars. What we noted in the report, and the government made some improvements to the reporting of those tax expenditures, is that even though they are not reported in the estimates, there is a tax expenditure repo

Status of Women committee  I have one more thing to add to what Nancy just said. It's a challenge for Status of Women to gather all the information on how effective GBA has been and how implemented it is across the government. I know Status of Women sought more resources in the last budget to improve thei

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  That's right. In the $400-million initiative, $350 million was set aside for the fund of funds and $50 million for what they call the “high-performing funds”.