Finance committee  Group RRSPs should be exempt as well.

Finance committee  Without seeing the amendment I—

Finance committee  If the amendment makes it so that solicitor-client privilege is in fact protected, I would say that's great. Without reading the amendment, I can't tell you if it does or not.

Finance committee  That's privileged.

Finance committee  If it excludes trust funds and excludes reference to the payments that are made to people under trust funds and basically carves trust funds out, yes. Short of that, no.

Finance committee  No. Whatever “record“ or “estimate” is going to be will be determined in some prosecution, so....

Finance committee  One is that in the United States the trust funds, pensions, health and welfare, and those sorts of things are excluded.

Finance committee  That is the most significant difference.

Finance committee  There are some other differences, but they're differences without distinction.

Finance committee  Somewhat, but not in terms of the Privacy Act.

Finance committee  Well, if you look at our organization, we're an international union. We do not report in the United States, as was suggested earlier. In Canada we are not required to report under the American legislation, but we do get information from our American colleagues. They tell us—and

Finance committee  We're a hiring hall union. Hiring hall unions allow us to dispatch people to go to work for employers. To get on the hiring list, you need to be a member of the union. Our members are volunteers. For our pension plans and our training funds, we have about $600 million invested in

Finance committee  The deduction for union dues is in the same section of the Income Tax Act as professional fees. I am a lawyer. I have to pay my bar fees, or I cannot work. I am also a steamfitter. I can be a union steamfitter or a non-union steamfitter. It's my choice. If the unions have to di

Finance committee  With respect to making things better for a trade union, I can see no public purpose whatsoever in having my secretary's salary on the public web for the world to see.

Finance committee  I certainly am open to discussing this. There's a number of things. Even if you look at the parallel legislation in the United States, for example, pension funds and health and welfare funds and training funds are exempt from the bill in the United States. It's only the union th