Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  We've come up with guidelines and checklists for our members which we put on our website. Then we distribute it to our members on occasion, the five things that Canada Revenue Agency is looking for when they inspect your business. We try to increase awareness and educate our me

Finance committee  I have to tell you, when this fiscal evasion issue first surfaced in Quebec we would have questions put to us about how prevalent zappers are in the industry. We have absolutely no idea. For us, it's very difficult. We know that a lot of our members were very concerned about the

Finance committee  When people are purchasing their coffee and their muffin in the morning most of them actually don't want a receipt. They don't want to take the receipt and they leave the receipt behind.

Finance committee  We have no objection to a requirement that you have to provide a receipt upon request. We have absolutely no problem with that. They will always provide a receipt upon request. The issue is that you have to give it to the customer whether they want it or not. That's the issue.

Finance committee  Yes, that's right.

Finance committee  We've worked very closely with Canada Revenue Agency.

Finance committee  In our industry we have 18 million transactions a day.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr.Chairman. It's nice to be back so soon. I appreciate the opportunity to talk to the committee today about parts 1 and 2 of the second budget implementation bill. I'm going to keep my remarks very brief so maybe you'll catch up some time. I'm going to focus my re

Human Resources committee  My understanding is that the ALMO is now gone, which from our perspective is unfortunate, but those who were applying through the ALMO were employers who had already been using the LMO process and were very familiar with it. The officials they worked with were very familiar with

Human Resources committee  Okay, good.

Human Resources committee  We have participated in a consultation process in terms of the temporary foreign worker program, so we have put forward our comments in a fairly comprehensive brief to the government. I don't know that I've put forward every question that I've raised here today, but we've certai

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. One of the criticisms of the ALMO, accelerated labour market opinion, process was that there were managers who were being fast-tracked for the ALMO process. The misunderstanding there was about what was happening in those restaurants. Again, this was in remote communi

Human Resources committee  Yes, 90% of the TFWs in our industry are in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The majority would be in Alberta. Back in the mid-2000s, when the economy was booming in Alberta, our industry was in a crisis situation in that market, as was noted. Franchisees were throwing the

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today about budget implementation measures impacting the temporary foreign worker program. The temporary foreign worker program is extremely important to our members, particularly in communities in we