Industry committee  Yes, I was just going to comment. The joint consultation that Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency had under way just closed on Friday. A lot of us have made submissions in there. If it's of interest and value to the committee, we'd be happy to provide that to you.

Industry committee  Sure. It's a really important issue. When the measure was announced, we were very concerned and opposed it quite strenuously. If you look at the optics of the thing in terms of thinking about tax havens, no one is going to argue with the idea that you need to address that. I thi

Public Safety committee  I appreciate that. Thank you. I'm just going to add one quick comment to what Mr. Webster just added. That's the context of economic growth and how much and how important the international trade side is for us in terms of trade and investment globally. One of the things you w

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's a really important one, for the reasons we've outlined already, when you look at a problem like this that has an economy-wide impact. I think that's what we've been learning, and this has been a learning process for a lot of us in the bu

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee. I'm delighted to be here today on behalf of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. I'm also pleased to introduce my colleague. Lee Webster is a partner at Osler's, and also, importantly for us at the chamber,

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I like the idea of saying that as you phase through the process here, as is proposed, you start consulting with people--which has already occurred, it started to occur right after the bill was tabled--you start to understand what people can do in terms of their realities with res

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, that's an expression that a lot of people use, and I guess we've used it too. People haven't been doing nothing; people are conscious of the need to invest in their plants. And I think we need some more encouragement in that area, by the way, and there are some tools that ar

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, absolutely. It's a major concern in terms of the economic impact. If you're looking at the kinds of targets we've had for the last number of years as a result of ratifying Kyoto, and I think there is a pretty good consensus that we can't meet those, those would really be pu

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Oh, there's no question.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  When it happened, you essentially heard the government of the day say they would call GHGs toxic. A lot of our members scratched their heads and asked under what definition it qualified. I think there was some negative reaction from that standpoint. There wasn't a negative reac

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll only make a couple of quick comments here. I think when you're looking at public policy development and planning in terms of dealing with climate change, it strikes me that you have to bring a whole lot of stakeholders into the picture. One we have b

Information & Ethics committee  This is the central question in terms of the educational component here in dealing with companies, specifically in trying to raise the bar, if I could put it that way, on knowledge, something that the Privacy Commissioner has said is one of the objectives for her office, and I th

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  The thoughts we've expressed here stem from a fundamental belief that in coping with legislation like this.... I make two points. First of all, for most of our members, and that would certainly include the smaller members, we're only three years in, and in the scheme of legislati