Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the committee, and my fellow witnesses. My name is Kevin Gaudet. I'm the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. We're a national, non-profit, non-partisan organization with more than 74,000 supporters nationwide. W

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. The cost analysis we undertook involved the $8.4 million published by the RCMP. It's important to reiterate that the Auditor General reportedly notes that the cost is importantly underreported—inaccurately reported, in fact. It flouts the important p

Public Safety committee  I believe Professor Mauser's arguments regarding the efficacy of this program. I recognize that you, as elected officials, have a substantial budget deficit to struggle with--some $48 billion this year alone, give or take. We'd like to see you working more actively on getting tha

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good morning, Madam Chairman and ladies and gentlemen of the committee. My name is Kevin Gaudet and I am the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. We are a national, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization with more than 74,000 supporters across th

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question. It's always a pleasure to hear parliamentarians fight among themselves with respect to who wants to take credit for how fast they can get something done, because that's so rare. With respect to the provinces, from what I understand, Ontario has recen

Human Resources committee  The $7 million figure is derived from a simple mathematical calculation. I had thought there were some 500 prisoners in question, each of whom were receiving the maximum $1,159 for 12 months a year. I stand to be corrected. The number will be whatever it is, and I think we all re

Human Resources committee  I honestly don't know. I did ask the department for that information, but they don't seem to know.

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, I don't know, sir.

Human Resources committee  I don't have an analysis I can publicly share. I have spoken with some lawyers, if I'm able to speak based on that information, sir. My understanding covers a couple of things. First of all, given that these types of programs have already survived legal challenges--the cessation

Human Resources committee  Madam Chairman, may I quickly add a comment?

Human Resources committee  Mr. Comartin, I wonder, too, given that we do have means testing, we already do have established algorithmic reasons under which we do choose to limit or not provide old age security currently, if this could be argued...although I'm not a lawyer.

Human Resources committee  Fine. I'm trying to make a legal argument as a non-lawyer, sir.

Human Resources committee  I think there might be ways to do it.

Human Resources committee  Ms. Minna, I think you raise an important sentiment, which on the one hand is that you recognize the principal importance of this bill. On the other hand, I also hear an important compassionate tone about wanting to ensure that those people in Canadian society are properly cared

Human Resources committee  I'm not familiar with article 78. I thought there had been a provision that would allow for provinces, especially, to.... I'm happy to learn this. If anything, my organization has been advocating for ages that we should be charging prisoners for their incarceration, and if we alr