Finance committee  I don't have the information on hand. However, I think I remember that the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1 contained a definition of “taxed cigarettes”, which included a date. Since we're changing the cigarette tax rate as of September 2017, we must slightly modify the defin

Finance committee  Trade challenges, in particular potential issues, aren't my area of expertise. Obviously, a team from the Department of Finance has looked into the matter. Remember that, when the special measure for Canadian wine was established, the Government of Canada at the time reduced or e

Finance committee  There's no excise duty on 100% Canadian wine.

Finance committee  Hello.

Finance committee  My name is Mathieu Bourgeois. I'm a tax policy officer at Finance Canada, for the sales tax division. To respond to your question, basically it's all based on the fact that alcohol excise duty rates have not been adjusted to account for inflation in the last almost three decades

Finance committee  Without doing all the calculations off the top of my head, I think it would be about a 90% increase for the last 30 years. It would basically be the consumer price index at the rough average of 2% per year, so every year it would have meant a 2% increase for the last 30 years.

Finance committee  Correct, but in the last 10 years, the average was roughly 1.9%.