Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think most members will be familiar with RCC, which has been the voice of retail in Canada since 1963. As a not-for-profit industry association, we represent over 45,000 storefronts on a national basis, of all formats ranging from independent through g

Industry committee  I might add something to what my colleague has said. We have taken issue—and I realize you're talking about reporting now rather than recording—with the way the reporting requirement is framed and do believe there should be a materiality test there. We could envisage circumstanc

Industry committee  That's correct. There are a number of specific provisions in this bill that we do support, and I had noted especially the business contact information exemption, which is significant here. We are supportive of the sort of alternative route, if you like, of voluntary compliance ag

Industry committee  I think it's going to be situational. This is not to be fanciful. If somebody's shoe size was revealed to another customer passing by, that is obviously resolvable in the circumstance. The kinds of harms that are specified are quite varied, everywhere from humiliation to bodily

Industry committee  The section itself is relatively quiet on the intended protections and we've understood from the minister's comments in previous testimony that it's intended primarily to protect vulnerable individuals, and that's obviously a step that we wholeheartedly support. We have heard fr

Industry committee  No. Let's make a distinction here between recording and reporting. We have a concern about the recording burden. The section on recording is very strictly worded, which essentially means every breach of security safeguards. We can envisage a world in which that creates the burd

Industry committee  For somebody stepping away from their desk to get a coffee, while some party is in the same room who may or may not have actually passed by that desk but with no certainty that the individual has done so, I think you have to have a materiality threshold.

Industry committee  Sure, it is a good practice.

Industry committee  I think we would differ. I think that there probably is a threshold level below which—whether it's the period for which a filing drawer was open or a screen was left unattended—it actually might fall below a material level for the necessity of maintaining records, and in partic

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members, for allowing me to contribute to your pre-budget deliberations and to speak to some of the issues that matter to our industry. For members who haven't heard from us before, RCC is a not-for-profit industry association. Founded in 1963, we repres

Finance committee  There were really only two countries that have rates that are comparable to Canada, and the U.S. has a comparable rate. I guess you could view it that the parent companies of both MasterCard and Visa are located there and it is tough negotiating packages. There have been some r

Finance committee  The reasons for price differentials between Canada and the U.S. are many. Some of them are fairly straightforward economies of scale and population that you would expect to see. Some of them are a rather poor practice called country pricing, in which Canadians are charged either

Finance committee  Some of our members would probably carry sharpened stakes and garlic, and so on. It's a hard file to kill. The issue, for us at least, is not online shopping. We're prepared to compete, and indeed our top 10 members' online sales match Amazon and eBay sales, eBay also being a mem

Finance committee  Yes, that's provincial and federal tax revenue, of course.

Finance committee  No, we don't have a developed one. We do a fair bit of work in the area of environmental responsibility. It's some distance from us, although obviously, it affects us. We tended to look to views from large final emitters and from environmental specialists. We don't have much to s