Sophie Chatel
- Family
- Mother of two twin boys. Husband teaches global history at the University of Ottawa.
- Education
- Bachelor of Laws from the Université de Montréal in 1994; Master of Taxation from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1997.
- Career
- Tax advisor in the private sector for six years. Senior Officer and later a Senior Advisor at the Canada Revenue Agency from 2002 to 2008. Worked at the federal Department of Finance starting in 2008 as Associate Chief, Tax Treaties and International Tax. Head of the Tax Treaty Unit in the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration in 2017.
- Political Experience
- Elected to represent the riding of Pontiac in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election.
- Notable
- First woman to represent the riding of Pontiac. Member of the Standing Committee on Finance in December 2021. Publicly called for a secret ballot on Justin Trudeau's leadership of the Liberal Party in October 2024. Endorsed Mark Carney in the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election.
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Sophie Chatel won with 32,088 votes (54.6%)
Total votes cast: 58,773
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for being here. I'm going to ask you three questions all at once. If you don't have time to answer them, please submit your answers in writing. I must say that you are the first witnesses the committee has heard from on this important study. First, if you had three priorities for the next framework, what would they be? Second, you've already [more]
It's promising, then.
We will share notes. Thank you. Do I have a little time left, Mr. Chair?
That's great. I know that science and innovation are mentioned a lot. The witnesses told us about two models: the meat model, where the sector is very involved in innovation through the beef science cluster, and the Australian model. Would that be something to bring up in the conversations around the next framework?
Do you have a list of proposed suggestions for improving the programs? You must have collected a number of them over time. Could you share with the committee what you've heard from stakeholders, even though we're going to hear from them here?
Mr. Chair, regarding my colleague's question, this committee had already concluded that this study would focus on science and innovation and that it would inform the discussion on science and technology in the next study. This committee was already in favour of that approach.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I agree with my colleague that the discussion on science and technology is important. I would remind this committee that we agreed to continue the discussion on science and technology as part of our next study, which we'll be starting soon, and which will focus on the partnership between the federal, provincial and territorial governments. I encourage my colleague to submit [more]
I agree with Mr. Lemire. We really ought to hold a meeting to, firstly, allow the analysts to produce their report and, secondly, to present the report along with recommendations. Then we can discuss it. We are finishing this week. Next week, we will be in our constituencies. After that, we start again. The recommendations will therefore not be sent to the government for several weeks if we [more]
Perfect. Thank you.
As Mr. Lemire mentioned, can we give instructions to the analysts this Thursday, so that they can use the spring break to work on a report and get back to us on this after the spring break?