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House Committee

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 30, 2024
The Chair (Mr. Peter Fonseca (Mississauga East—Cooksville, Lib.))
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I call this meeting to order. Members, witnesses, it's good to see everybody here. I hope you had a fruitful constituency week this past week. Welcome to meeting number 140 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, March 18, 2024, and the motion adopted on Monday, December 11, 2023, the committee is meeting to discuss Bill C-59, an act to implement certain provisions of the fall economic statement tabled in Parliament on November 21, 2023 and certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format pursuant to Standing Order 15.1. Before we begin, I'd like to remind all members and other meeting participants in the room of the following important preventative measures, which have changed. To prevent disruptive and potentially harmful audio feedback incidents that can cause injuries, all in-person participants are reminded to keep their earpieces away from all microphones at all times. As indicated in the communiqué from the Speaker to all members on Monday, April 29, the following measures have been taken to help prevent audio feedback incidents. All earpieces have been replaced by a model that greatly reduces the probability of audio feedback. The new earpieces are black in colour, whereas the former earpieces were grey. Please only use the black approved earpiece. By default, all unused earpieces will be unplugged at the start of a meeting. When you are not using your earpiece, please place it face down in the middle of the sticker for this purpose, which you will find on the table as indicated. Please consult the cards on the table for guidelines to prevent audio feedback incidents. The room layout has been adjusted to increase the distance between microphones and reduce the chance of feedback from an ambient earpiece. These measures are in place so that we can conduct our business without interruption and to protect the health and safety of all participants, including the interpreters. Thank you all for your co-operation. In accordance with the committee's routine motion concerning connection tests for witnesses, I inform the committee that all witnesses have completed the required connection tests in advance of the meeting. Those are the witnesses here, members. There are many officials and witnesses who are outside, and they may not have had that testing done. If they are called upon, we will suspend so that we can make sure their recording devices and interpretation devices are working well. I'd like to make a few comments for the benefit of the members and witnesses. Please wait until I recognize you by name before speaking. For members in the room, please raise your hand if you wish to speak. For members on Zoom, please use the “raise hand” function. The clerk and I will manage the speaking order as best we can. We appreciate your understanding in this regard. As a reminder, all comments should be addressed through the chair. Officials are at the meeting to answer technical questions on the bill. Now we are moving to the annotated agenda. Members, as we start clause-by-clause consideration, pursuant to Standing Order 75(1), consideration of clause 1, the short title, is postponed. (Clause 1 allowed to stand) The Chair: There are no amendments to clauses 2 to 6, so I would seek unanimous consent to group those, members.
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Mr. Philip Lawrence (Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC)
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Which ones are we grouping?
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