Government Operations committee  Thank you for your wishes. On those three questions in order, on whether it would be more appropriate to look at the tax expenditure report or at the evaluation, the publication contains both elements in the same package. We'd be happy to entertain any questions on any of those

Government Operations committee  I'm not aware of past practices going way back. I do know that we're getting regular queries from other parliamentarians, other ministers' offices, stakeholders, think tanks, and citizens. We're getting a lot of queries, year in and year out.

Government Operations committee  On your point in terms of the consultation or expert advisory committees and whether we had full coverage of those tax expenditures, yes, we did. We do our very best each and every year to try and capture the entirety of it. We make improvements year by year to make sure that the

Government Operations committee  This is very much led by the Treasury Board Secretariat; I trust my colleagues a whole lot.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the Department of Finance publishes now, since the year 2000, a thorough evaluation and studies; they are being published alongside the tax expenditures report. There have been 20 of those studies published, precisely on this very issue of effectiveness and whether we

Government Operations committee  Yes, they are on our website. They are published annually, around the time of publication of the report. We tend to be a humble bunch in Canada, but it's worth noting that publishing not only the data, as we do, but also the studies is seen as very much a best practice among OECD

Government Operations committee  I'd just like first to reiterate the point about the agreement in principle. We do agree with the thrust of the recommendation. In terms of where it would best belong in House of Commons activities, as an official, I don't feel I am the one to say where it should go, either by ex

Government Operations committee  There's no set committee that has been historically reviewing it per se. We've had ad hoc requests here and there from parliamentarians, but there isn't a set committee at the moment.

Government Operations committee  Thanks so much. Thanks for the question. It's true that the government agrees in principle with that particular recommendation, very much in the spirit that you and other committee members have flagged the desire to have a broader picture of government activities. The reservat

Government Operations committee  That's right, and this is the reason that we have suggested to introduce this link in every single departmental RPP so that they can actually have access to that broad picture of what's happening in terms of tax expenditures across government.