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Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It should be part of a plan. Whether it should be part of this legislation or not, I don't know. I'm being a little evasive on that because there is Bill C-30, but there was also published, not too long ago, a notice of intent to develop and implement regulations and other measu

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I could comment just briefly on that, I can try to explain what should be in Bill C-30. Let me take another cut at that. In a climate change plan, a plan to address the climate change issue, we believe very strongly—and this was in the report last f

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Lussier. We're doing quite an intensive audit on a number of these SDSs just now for reporting on in the fall. In terms of looking at the harmful subsidies, I'm not aware that we've found them in there yet, but I've only looked at this current year's. Perhaps Mr

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The quick answer is that I don't know. Do you have any comments on that, Richard?

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. Chairman, c'est un plaisir for me to be here. I've picked just a couple of incidents, a couple of recommendations from that chapter, because I had 10 minutes to speak this morning. But you're quite right, the chapter itself goes into a good deal more detail. It has three bas

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. Chairman, no, we haven't. Mr. Scarpaleggia, that's getting into the area of what we call tax expenditures. We've done some work in that area, mainly trying to encourage the government to publish at least a listing of what these expenditures are, but in terms of looking at t

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  What we would do in terms of any program--and that's an example--is this. Our mandate allows us to ask this question: do the people who run the program know whether it's effective? If we feel that they don't know or they're not trying to find out, we would comment. Under our mand

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Are you talking about the bus passes?

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I wouldn't think so. We would look at the program, once put in place, to see whether it was being managed reasonably well. We would like to see whether or not, as I mentioned earlier, the people who were running the program knew whether it was working. Beyond that, we wouldn't go

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Perhaps I may comment on that, Mr. Chairman. What we've done in the area of fiscal instruments...take the 2004 chapter, sir, that we did, that I referred to in my remarks. We looked at what the Department of Finance was doing as it put its tax policy together. They themselves,

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. You've introduced my colleague Richard Arsenault. I also have with me Mr. Bob Pelland, who can help us if we need him. As you know, the commissioner's group that I lead conducts performance audits of the implementation of the government's poli

March 1st, 2007Committee meeting

Ron Thompson