Finance committee  I do, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your excellent chairmanship. This is complementary to the amendment already made by MP Blaikie and also my earlier one. The critical part about this is that, instead of codifying things in tight prescriptive regulations, it gives CRA the autonom

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to move my amendment. By way of explanation, this will ensure that the Income Tax Act does not prohibit donors from giving to support programs of registered charities where the registered charity satisfies the “own activity” test or makes a qu

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank all members for their constructive comments. We have had a number of lawyers, experts and constitutional lawyers review this amendment, and they are of the firm belief that this actually instills sufficient controls, transpa

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have spent extensive time consulting with stakeholders with respect to the charitable sector, and they have incredible frustration with the current status of the law respecting the contributions of charities to non-qualified entities such as NGO

Finance committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hayne, with respect to the luxury tax, one of the things that surprises me—it's kind of shocking that it exists—is that this government consistently taxes tax. One of the principles behind tax law across the world is that we tax on a wealth acc

Finance committee  Yes. There are economies of scale. I think that would be a fair way of putting it. In terms of the potential for the market, if in fact some of the headwinds such as the ever-increasing excise taxes were able to be reduced or the burden of government regulation was able to be r

Finance committee  Isn't it also true that a lot of innovation in flavour development and other innovative practices occurs at the microbrewery level? If those smaller craft breweries were to disappear, we would lose a lot of that innovation going forward.

Finance committee  To finish off, your ask to make sure that we protect this industry was that we provide some fairness for the smaller microbreweries and that there be some type of break as they grow forward so that they are not necessarily competing with the giants domestically and, I assume, wit

Finance committee  I'm actually really curious to hear the answer to that question. Maybe I can give 30 seconds of my time to Ms. Sarangi to respond.

Finance committee  Thank you. The analogy “blood from a stone” seems to come to mind. Mr. Goddard, I would like to focus my questions on the craft brewery industry and go over a couple of the numbers you mentioned at the beginning. You said that about 96% of brewery employment is from craft brew

Finance committee  I'm happy to have Mr. Blaikie take some of my time, if I can come back after he speaks. If he would like to do that, it's okay with me.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. While I certainly did appreciate the commentary of my colleagues, I must apologize. I do not have their same gift of brevity.

Finance committee  I'm going to focus a lot of my remarks on direction and control, because I think it's an incredibly important topic in terms of how it's holding back Canadian charities. I want to start with the text of the subamendment that is in front of us. A couple of dates really stood out t

Finance committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

Finance committee  I believe we are given a wide purview when we are talking in committee. He was referencing the reason that there might be a distraction technique, and it was within the scope there. With respect, Mr. Chair, I believe Mr. Stewart's comments were within his wide purview.