The witnesses answered questions.

The committee resumed its clause-by-clause study of the Bill.

The committee resumed clause-by-clause consideration on Clause 1 of the Bill.

The committee resumed consideration of the amendment of Ryan Turnbull, — That Bill C-230, in Clause 1, be amended by adding after line 7 on page 2 the following:

“Exception

(3) Despite subsection (2), the President of the Treasury Board may exclude from the registry any information that, in their opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons related to the protection of confidential, personal or sensitive information.

Establishment of registry

(4) The registry must be established within 18 months after the day on which this section comes into force and, on the day that it is established, must include information relating to each debt, obligation or claim referred to in subsection (1) that was remitted, forgiven, written off or waived — after the day on which this section comes into force — during the fiscal year to which the Public Accounts most recently tabled in the House of Commons relate.

Maintenance of registry

(5) Within 90 days after the day on which the Public Accounts are tabled in the House of Commons, the President of the Treasury Board must update the registry to include information relating to each debt, obligation or claim referred to in subsection (1) that was remitted, forgiven, written off or waived during the fiscal year to which the tabled Public Accounts relate.

For greater certainty

(6) For greater certainty, for the purposes of this section, a debt or obligation owed to a Crown corporation is not a debt or obligation owed to His Majesty and a claim by a Crown corporation is not a claim by His Majesty.”

At 4:44 p.m., the meeting was suspended.

At 4:46 p.m., the meeting resumed.

The question was put on the subamendment of Kristina Tesser Derksen and it was agreed to.

Clause 1, as amended, carried.

Clause 2 carried.

Clause 3 carried.

Clause 4 carried.

Clause 5 carried.

Clause 6 carried.

Clause 7 carried.

The Title carried.

The Bill, as amended, was adopted.

ORDERED, — That the Chair report the Bill, as amended, to the House.

ORDERED, — That Bill C-230, as amended, be reprinted for the use of the House of Commons at report stage.

Gérard Deltell moved, — That, in light of recent reporting that the Canada Revenue Agency is requiring the City of Laval to issue a payment of approximately $1 million to former mayor Gilles Vaillancourt in order for him to remit taxes on funds previously stolen from the municipality and later returned, the Committee invite the Minister of National Revenue and officials from the Canada Revenue Agency and the mayor of Laval to appear before the Committee for no fewer than two hours at the earliest opportunity to explain the Agency’s decision making process in this matter and to clarify the Liberal government’s position on requiring a municipality to transfer taxpayer dollars to a convicted former official for the purpose of settling a tax liability related to proceeds of crime.

Debate arose thereon.

At 5:08 p.m., the meeting was suspended.

At 5:16 p.m., the meeting resumed.

At 5:24 p.m., the meeting was suspended.

At 5:27 p.m., the meeting resumed.

The question was put on the amendment of Kristina Tesser Derksen and it was agreed to.

Debate resumed on the motion of Gérard Deltell.

After debate, the question was put on the motion, as amended, and it was agreed to on the following recorded division:

YEAS: Jaime Battiste, Gérard Deltell, Ned Kuruc, Stephanie Kusie, Sébastien Lemire, Ron McKinnon, Kristina Tesser Derksen, Jean Yip — 8;

NAYS: — 0.

The motion, as amended, read as follows:

That, in light of recent reporting that the Canada Revenue Agency is requiring the City of Laval to issue a payment of approximately $1 million to former mayor Gilles Vaillancourt in order for him to remit taxes on funds previously stolen from the municipality and later returned, the committee invite the Minister of Finance and National Revenue and officials from the Canada Revenue Agency and the mayor of Laval to appear before the committee for no fewer than two hours at the earliest opportunity to explain the Agency’s decision-making process in this matter and to clarify the Government’s position on requiring a municipality to transfer taxpayer dollars to a convicted former official for the purpose of settling a tax liability related to proceeds of crime.

At 5:37 p.m., the meeting was suspended.

At 5:44 p.m., the meeting resumed in camera.

It was agreed, — That the proposed budget in the amount of $1,000, for the study of the 2026 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of Canada, be adopted.

It was agreed, — That the proposed budget in the amount of $1,500, for Bill C-230, An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (debt forgiveness registry), be adopted.

It was agreed, — That the proposed budget in the amount of $1,000, for the study of Report 4, National Trade Corridors Fund—Transport Canada, of the 2024 Reports 2 to 4 of the Auditor General of Canada, be adopted.

It was agreed, — That the proposed budget in the amount of $1,500, for the study of Report 2, Housing in First Nations Communities, of the 2024 Reports 2 to 4 of the Auditor General of Canada, be adopted.

It was agreed, — That the proposed budget in the amount of $3,250, for the study of the Public Accounts of Canada 2024 and Public Accounts of Canada 2025, be adopted.

It was agreed, — That the draft report prepared for the committee in relation to its study of Report 4, National Trade Corridors Fund—Transport Canada, of the 2024 Reports 2 to 4 of the Auditor General of Canada in the 1st Session of the 44th Parliament, be considered by the committee.

It was agreed, — That the draft report, as amended, be adopted.

It was agreed, — That the report be entitled: "National Trade Corridors Fund—Transport Canada".

It was agreed, — That the Chair, clerk and analysts be authorized to make such grammatical and editorial changes as may be necessary without changing the substance of the report.

It was agreed, — That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee request that the government table a comprehensive response to the report.

It was agreed, — That dissenting or supplementary opinions be in Calibri 12-point font, left aligned, single-spaced, and be submitted electronically, in both official languages, to the clerk of the committee, not later than 3:00 p.m. on Friday, April 10, 2026.

ORDERED, — That the Chair present the report to the House.