Finance committee  Again, forgive me if I misstated. Right now, under the current User Fees Act, more than 80% of the fees are not subject to the provisions of the User Fees Act, as a result of that Department of Justice interpretation. That doesn't mean the departments are not following certain as

Finance committee  Are there organizations that...? Sorry, I didn't hear that.

Finance committee  They would not have done consultation in terms of fees, but they would be in regular contact with their stakeholders on the services they're delivering on other aspects of their business.

Finance committee  The advisory boards in terms of being within the legislation?

Finance committee  For the advisory board within the legislation, again, are you talking about if there's a dispute that's unresolved, perhaps, or...?

Finance committee  On the fee structure, again, the idea, the proposal, would be that first of all there would be a consultation with stakeholders. If the issues are not resolved, then there would be the ability to appeal in terms of having a panel struck. In terms of the panel, the idea would be

Finance committee  Fees could conceivably go down under the legislation, yes. Out of the process in terms of whether the costs go down, etc., fees could go down at any point, but that wouldn't.... I mean, there would be a discussion with the stakeholders, but there would not be the same level of co

Finance committee  I personally do not have access to that information, but I can commit to taking the question back and working with my colleagues in other sectors in terms of looking at providing a response to that.

Finance committee  Sorry. I misunderstood the translation. However, if I understood the question, you're asking me to specify the reason for all this.

Finance committee  In terms of, again, looking at it, the pros and cons, we did look at everything. From more of an industry perspective, we tried taking a look at existing ones. For example, Health Canada has one that was built in. They put it in as a 2% escalator. We looked at the benefits of tho

Finance committee  That's a very difficult question to answer. What I can tell you, based on the information that's reported in the departmental performance reports, is that associated with the $1.9 billion that's collected, the associated costs are indicated at being around $3.4 billion. Now, you

Finance committee  Escalators for fees in other jurisdictions, in terms of the fees themselves, yes. In terms of the broader policy piece, like with the service fees act, which is really the administrative legislation that covers it, I'm not sure. What we actually have is a little more of a unique

Finance committee  One of the things we are proposing associated with this is a policy framework that would state a gain and provide some of the direction around what and how departments would engage with stakeholders around that. Existing processes are in place. Even though many fees have not incr

Finance committee  There is. Under the service fees act there still is an appeals process. In fact, it's changed a little bit, but it's more in terms of giving more time so there is an appropriate amount of time for a panel to be set up and review it.

Finance committee  In terms of fees they collect, in total.... This is based on rolling up information from the departmental performance reports, which may not include all fees because departments don't have to put it into their departmental performance reports because they're not covered by the Us