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.

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  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  We consulted twice on the amendments.

Finance committee  After the first consultation, we met with transit authority officials. After the second consultation, no one proposed any changes.

Finance committee  These are fairly technical. I don't think we have an estimate for that, because certain measures may close potential loopholes while other measures provide further relief. Overall, they likely balance each other.

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  Good afternoon. Part 2 of the bill makes changes to the GST and HST. The amendments appear in clauses 106 to 164. I'm going to describe the measures in the order they appear in the summary, with only one exception, given that two of the measures are more closely linked. I wan

Finance committee  I cannot talk about the commitment you mentioned, but what I can say is that at the inception of the GST, there was a policy decision made that the GST would apply to what is called the “consideration for the supply”, that being the the price being paid. In terms of taxes, there

Finance committee  We can report further on estimates of revenue, if we have it, but right now, the way the law is written the GST would apply on top of it.

Finance committee  No. In fact, in the taxi industry and the carpooling industry, people provide services and are present in Canada. These are self-employed drivers who drive their cars and offer a carpooling service. These people are in Canada. We ask them to register, just as we ask conventional

Finance committee  The same model exists for independent taxi drivers.

Finance committee  I'm not going to talk about taxes. Perhaps my colleagues will want to add a few words on this. The difficulty with the goods and services tax is that the company is not physically present in this country. The company is, in fact, a website that people have access to. I do not kn