Finance committee  It's very difficult to make estimates for those kinds of measures, because we don't have data to make the estimates. These are very technical measures. It's not as if we were relieving a new good or service, where basically we could go to StatsCan and evaluate, based on a survey,

Finance committee  First of all, Uber is for profit.

Finance committee  I don't know the structure of the city you referred to, but if all of the municipal transit is paid by the municipality—if they pay Uber, including tax, and they pay tax on these things—then the municipality is entitled to a 100% rebate of the GST/HST that it pays.

Finance committee  The way the exemption worked before was that it was an exemption for a service. If you look at it in a traditional way, you would have a transit service. You would walk onto the bus and you would put change in the machine. It was a direct service. The way it's mostly done now i

Finance committee  The way I read the amendment, it requires an invitation of the representative from the province. It's not totally clear whether it requires unanimous consent before an agreement is entered into with the willing province. It's a little bit ambiguous in that sense.

Finance committee  If the amendment were adopted, it would require the Minister of Finance to invite his provincial counterparts.