Finance committee  I have only five minutes, so I want to shift to the Hotel Association of Canada. Mr. Lund, right at the end of your presentation you advocated for greater funds for tourism marketing purposes, which I sympathize with. However, there's only so much that can be spent in a budget.

Finance committee  I'm asking because I'm a member of Parliament, as I said at the outset, from London, Ontario. Recently, the tourism association of our city, Tourism London, under the leadership of John Winston, has put forward with the city council a provision now that's being introduced by hote

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for being here. Governor, you know London, Ontario, very well because you studied at Western University. That's where I'm from. That's the city I have the honour of representing in the House of Commons. As I think you know, London sustained itsel

Finance committee  Sure, and I certainly agree. I'm glad our government has invested in retraining, for example, and made that a priority, but obviously there will be more to do. I ask the question, not only because of my interest in it, but I think this is really a matter of concern for a lot of

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Giroux, for being here. I was very interested in the report that you recently released. You say that U.S. tax cuts will not have a material impact on Canada's investment climate. I wonder if you could expand on that point. Tell us how you

Finance committee  I appreciate your objectivity, then, Mr. Giroux. I see that I have about a minute left, so I will put to you the following question. The TD Bank a number of months ago issued an opinion saying that if we were to follow the U.S. in significantly cutting our corporate tax rate, do

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Could you explain a little further the point about redundant tariff items? What made them redundant and how does the change improve things from an efficiency perspective?

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question on the clarification of ambiguous language with respect to the CDIC Act. For example, what was the problem before and what's the remedy now?

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. I have a question with respect to the whistle-blowing amendments that have been made and also the changes that have been made for the complaints handling bodies. What was the situation prior to these changes being brought into effe

Finance committee  Thank you very much. One last question on the requirement for banks to provide an electronic alert to help consumers manage fees. How would that work exactly in as basic and concise an answer as you can provide?

Finance committee  That's very positive. Thank you very much.

Finance committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. Is this question relevant to the discussion of the BIA?