Finance committee  Correct.

Finance committee  It currently requires disclosure of legal activity. I think that should be excluded.

Finance committee  Again, I think labour trusts should be exempted from the bill.

Finance committee  I don't have a response. I really don't understand how that amendment would work.

Finance committee  Well, I think I addressed that before. It would in respect...but it would still cause concerns for the privacy question.

Finance committee  You never ask a lawyer to go into detail and then say they have a short time.

Finance committee  The problem from the constitutional point of view is that it requires such extensive reporting of payor/payee reasons for the transaction with respect to political activities, lobbying activities, and organizing activities, as well as collective bargaining activities, that this c

Finance committee  From the CBA's perspective, the bill is obviously an amendment to the Income Tax Act. It would have to be supported on that basis. It wasn't clear to us on the face of this bill what income tax-related purpose the bill was attempting to achieve. It seems to have potentially maybe

Finance committee  Right now the bill, in its current form, would require those to be published and made public on a website. Clearly that's, from our perspective, a concern. It's not clear to me what the proposed amendments are, but if the amendment is simply that the name and the salary still be

Finance committee  There isn't, not on the face of the bill as it is currently drafted.

Finance committee  Our submissions reflect three of our sections: the privacy law section, the pension and benefits law section, and the constitutional law section. The constitutional law section raises serious reservations regarding the bill's constitutionality. Again, that's one of the reasons th

Finance committee  With respect to the issues of privacy, I think there's clearly an issue on the side of pension, health, and welfare plans that needs to be addressed. Requiring somebody's pension benefits or prescription drug benefits to be posted on a public website would run afoul of Canadian p

Finance committee  When it comes to those issues, I think we're getting confused between items that are under provincial jurisdiction and those that are under federal jurisdiction. What we heard from Mr. Kelly is a concern that's addressed in provincial legislation. Provinces, as we know, will have

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  If I may, one of our biggest concerns with the bill, and we have a few, is with respect to its extremely broad definition of labour trusts. We've already heard several times this afternoon that it includes a number of entities, which may or may not have been the intention of this