Kristina Tesser Derksen

There would be a comma, and then “and Mr. Vaillancourt”.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. The final proposed amendment is about eight lines down. After “the Agency’s decision making process in this matter and to clarify the”, I would like to remove “Liberal” and just go with “Government”. I think it's pretty clear to everyone which party forms government. I don't want to politicize things. We're a non-partisan committee. I think it would cheapen what [more]

I'll do them one at a time.

My proposal would be to just have it as “Government”. I think we need to add an apostrophe in the version the clerk recently sent us.

Thank you very much. Amendment number one that I recommend—and in my version it's about four lines in—is to strike out the following words: “the Minister of National Revenue”. I'll speak to the rationale. minister I fully understand the need for transparency and for questions and answers to be exchanged in this committee. As someone with a legal background, though, I understand that there is an [more]

Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. I'm moving a subamendment to create proposed subsection (3.1). If you'd like me to read that into the record, I can do so. The proposed wording is as follows: “If any information is excluded from the registry under subsection (3), the President of the Treasury Board must identify in the registry whether the information was excluded for reasons relating to the [more]

We're also talking about a previous mayor.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The next amendment would be to the sentence after the one we were dealing with, where it says “Canada Revenue Agency”. We would delete the word “and”.

We would delete “and”, keep “the”, add “current” and proceed with “mayor”. It would read, “Canada Revenue Agency, the current mayor of Laval”. Do you see that? Do you want me to keep going?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to my colleague, who is a gentleman. We spoke about this matter, and I have been reading a lot about it. It certainly is very egregious. I appreciate his concern and the fact that he has brought it before this committee. I want to propose some amendments to the motion, Mr. Chair. I have four. I can do those individually, if I may start with the first one.

Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. I just want to point out that we did receive a letter from the Privacy Commissioner that expressed no major concerns, but there was a minor concern with respect to a point of uncertainty in proposed paragraph 25.1(2)(e), which talks about including in the registry “any other information that the President of the Treasury Board may require.” The Privacy Commissioner [more]