Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's actually a loan agreement and it's a provision that already exists in the act. It's just being carried forward.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I mean, the fact that financial institutions can write off debt, provided that it's properly done, then it wouldn't become a deemed contribution.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The government's bill is very much based on the Chief Electoral Officer's 2007 report with respect to loans. There were a couple of variations. One is that the CEO suggested that perhaps consideration could be given to allowing candidates to give themselves a start-up loan. His r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I guess a candidate is a candidate when their nomination is confirmed by the returning officer, so I'm not sure that situation could apply in that case.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, the deemed contributions would actually be fairly rare. There are a certain number of circumstances that avoid unpaid debt being a deemed contribution. Notably, a financial institution can write off the debt as being unpayable, and in that case it wouldn't be a deemed contri

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The bill comes into force six months after royal assent. Generally speaking, the provisions governing loans are not retroactive but, with the change to the contribution limits for leadership contestants, would apply to anybody who continues to be a leadership contestant upon comi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The contribution limit in proposed section 405 would be applied once the act comes into force. It would no longer be a per-contest limit but an annual limit.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is further detailed information about this on StatsCan's website. The concept of census net under-coverage is fairly well understood amongst statisticians, and the population estimates are primarily more accurate because they do account for that census net under-coverage.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly. Statistics Canada produces quarterly population estimates. It has been doing that since 1971, and there's a statutory requirement under the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act for Statistics Canada to produce an annual population estimate to allocate funding for

Finance committee  Well, we do have the information. If I understand correctly, you're asking for the estimated value of the tax credit, the reimbursements to political parties and the reimbursements to candidates. The tax credit—they're only estimates. They're provided by the Department of Fina

Finance committee  I don't know if I have summed it up...but it's $29 million for party expenses, $25 million for candidates, and that comes to about $54 million; and then $21 million to $32 million for the estimate for the tax credit.

Finance committee  Good evening. My name is Matthew Lynch. I'm director of democratic reform at the Privy Council Office.