Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My opening remarks will be in both official languages. I will do my very best to go from one language to the other and to stay within the six minutes. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I, too, would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to

Government Operations committee  To answer your first question regarding the number of people working either on-site or remotely, there are about 2,500 employees at the CRA who are still working on site as we speak, and there are, I would say, about 30,000 people working remotely. The CRA has expanded its bandw

Government Operations committee  There are 22,000 critical workers at home and 2,500 in the office. They're all doing critical work. The difference is that those working on site are not able to work remotely, either because of the equipment or because some of the jobs have to be done on site, like receiving the

Government Operations committee  Thanks for your nice words about our members. Obviously, those who are processing all the benefits and answering questions from millions of Canadians have been working around the clock. The people working 75 to 80 hours a week obviously have a very hard time balancing their work

Government Operations committee  Thank you.

Government Operations committee  With the exceptional workload we have right now, we definitely need more people. We also had to adjust quite rapidly. So the agency asked non-essential employees who are at home and not working to get involved and help the call centre agents to answer questions. Approximately 7,5

Finance committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am the national president of the Union of Taxation Employees. First of all, I too would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to take part in this discussion today on Bill C-224. The Union of Taxation Employees is a

Finance committee  It would be very complicated, and to be perfectly frank, I don't think it would save a dime. I say that because the federal and provincial systems define income very differently. For example, if an individual has a private health insurance plan that is paid wholly or partly by t

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Berthold, this is something people have been talking about for a long time, but they have yet to find a solution. Why? Because it's complicated. That's the problem. You said you would like to have a single form. It's worth noting that 95% of individual

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, Ms. Koutrakis. I can speak to the potential cost savings for Quebec. Even the Robillard commission, which the Quebec government established under former premier Couillard, estimated that Quebec would save $398 million annually if the feder

Finance committee  I can certainly do that. The impact would be devastating, especially for the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean and Mauricie regions. The CRA is the biggest employer in the Mauricie region and one of the biggest in the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region, along with the mining sector. That's 1,

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Ste-Marie, I want to first say that I very much respect your political beliefs. I did indeed mention that in my opening statement. It would make sense, a lot of sense even, for Revenu Québec to be the only one handling taxation in Quebec, if Quebec wer

Finance committee  I don't think that's the case. People are very useful. Only 6,000 of the Canada Revenue Agency's employees are in Quebec. The reason I say it's only 6,000 is that there are 45,000 of them in the country. One of the reasons behind that is that the CRA is no longer responsible for

Finance committee  As I said before, the impact would be very significant. We are talking about at least 1,200 jobs in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. Even more jobs than that are occasionally involved. There are 1,500 jobs in Mauricie. That represents payrolls of about $75 million in Mauricie and $50 mil