Finance committee  This is Neal Leblanc. I'm the director of CPP policy and legislation at Employment and Social Development Canada. At the moment, the information being collected by the Minister of National Revenue and shared for the purposes of the Canada pension plan is only the data necessary

Finance committee  No. Specifically what's happened here is that this is a clarification to the legislation that we were asked to make by the Canada Revenue Agency. We used to have access to this data. They had since determined that the wording in the legislation could be interpreted that we did n

Finance committee  My apologies. I will endeavour to speak somewhat more slowly. As I said, the reason for this legislative change is essentially to clarify the legislation and to restore us to a point where we had been in the past. It was requested by the Canada Revenue Agency, because they had d

Finance committee  Having more data will allow us to ensure that the program is more responsive to the needs of Canadians. At the same time, the legislation and amendment formulas for the CPP make it very challenging to change. We need the formal approval of seven provinces to make any changes to b