Health committee  The front page is certainly a crowded page, especially when you move into the French version of it. That being said, we believe we can put it in that first page. That would be our intention.

Health committee  We don't think that, as envisaged, there would be a problem.

Health committee  You'd certainly want to have it passed by the spring of 2019 in order to implement it for February 2020.

Health committee  I wouldn't say “constitutional”, but there are a number of problems with that. I'll just give you a few. One is the different rules in provinces and territories. They have different rules on age and mental competency requirements. Some require health card information. Some, in f

Health committee  Yes, I think it's very possible that you could have it done for the 2019 taxation year, which would mean February 2020, when that process begins of people filing. If the legislation passes, and if we have the discussions with the provinces and territories and they're willing to d

Health committee  Generally speaking, when there is a question like this and there's a yes-or-no alternative, if a person fails to answer that it would be considered a no. Therefore, we would continue to process the tax return, whether or not the individual filled that out. It would be very diffic

Health committee  It's difficult to say. I will say that we do this on a regular basis. We have MOUs with provinces and territories, and with various departments within the province or territory. We have a very well-oiled machine for that. We do need to have an MOU, because we don't collect inform

Health committee  Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the invitation to appear here before this committee and respond to your questions about Bill C-316 , an act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act regarding organ donations. I'm Frank Vermaeten. I'm the assistant commissioner of the assess

Finance committee  Perhaps I can add to that. I think the investments the government has made in the telephone system have really allowed significant improvement; that was in budget 2016, which I think stabilized the funding, and in budget 2018. When you look at what's in the OAG report, you see a

Finance committee  We have a large and dedicated staff, and they have an important job to try to make sure that people get the benefits they are entitled to. We do these reviews, and in some cases people will get more and in some cases people will get less. Determining eligibility is really importa

Finance committee  I'd be happy to answer that. The way the RDSP program works is that, for an individual who was initially eligible for the DTC and then became ineligible, it allows some time for the opportunity for those cases to be reviewed, for the individual to resubmit the DTC application, o

Finance committee  When we do the review, whether it's a review or a decision that's overturned, the individual is notified that they're now eligible for the DTC. It's made very clear. I can look into the issue about whether there would be statistics about whether anybody would wind down the RDSP

Finance committee  I'd be happy to set out our plans to improve the call centres. The improvement is already happening, and I'd say it's happening quite rapidly. The first thing of course is to hire more call agents. That process has begun, and that's been extremely helpful.

Finance committee  It's great to hear that you're having some success. The CVIT program is a very popular program. It's really been increasing over the last several years. We particularly welcomed the resources in budget 2018. That allowed us, again, to double the size of the resources, and that,

Finance committee  We haven't finalized the data. I'd like to finalize the data, because if we release preliminary data and we're still waiting for some then that's going to create confusion when we release the final ones.