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Committee Evidence - ENVI-34
2021-05-20
Francis Scarpaleggia - 16:05
Toby Heaps
2021-05-20 16:05
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The first point is for the Minister of Finance's annual report to include the federal financial institutions that I mentioned.
The other point, a subpoint, is for the Minister of Finance's annual report to include the percent of major suppliers to the federal government for net-zero alignment. There are about—
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Francis Scarpaleggia - 16:06
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Committee Evidence - ENVI-32
2021-05-17
Francis Scarpaleggia - 15:41
Samuel Millar
2021-05-17 15:42
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The “risks and opportunities” phrase is used in many of the international standards around climate-related risks. The government would intend to develop a report that's suitable to the federal government and the federal public administration to match the best practices that are seen internationally.
You'll note that in the most recent budget, the government has committed to adopting the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures for large Crown corporations by 2022 and for smaller Crown corporations by 2024. This measure complements the existing commitments.
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Committee Evidence - PACP-21
2021-03-09
Michael Sabia - 12:31
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques)
2021-03-09 12:31
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Great.
Mr. Sabia, $160 million is not insignificant. A lawsuit involving veterans regarding an accounting error has been dragging on for 11 years. The $160 million would settle that.
Ms. Hogan, the Auditor General, even told us that her estimate of $169 million was an underestimate. So I guess there are several million dollars more.
You say that you are preparing briefings and a whole host of analyses for the minister. That makes sense, since it is your role to advise the department and the minister. However, you say that you have no data to corroborate the findings of the Office of the Auditor General. I am trying to understand. You say that you have provided analyses to the government. What is your role with the government?
Who didn't want to provide us with the data before? Was it you or the government?
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Michael Sabia
2021-03-09 12:32
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Madam Chair, I'm in a bit of a tricky situation here. I do not want to comment on the direction or activities of the department in the past.
What I'm saying today is that I feel very comfortable providing this estimate to the committee. That said, I am not in a position to tell you whether or not it is a change.
Our intention is simply to be transparent. In this situation, I think we are well positioned to provide you with such an estimate without compromising our fundamental job of providing important advice to our minister, and through him, to the government.
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques)
2021-03-09 12:33
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Mr. Sabia, I understand that you are uncomfortable with the situation right now. We are talking about your predecessor.
We had questions for departmental officials on two occasions. Last February, the chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts had to send you a letter to—
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques)
2021-03-09 12:36
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Yes, it's quite simple, Mr. Sabia.
In your remarks, you talked about transparency. I'm trying to understand why it took three months to obtain a figure that you already had in your possession at the department.
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Michael Sabia
2021-03-09 12:36
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Okay. That's a reasonable question.
I'll repeat myself a little. Clearly, I always try to honour the past directions of an organization. In this case, it's the Department of Finance. But you also have to find ways for those directions or practices to evolve. That's why I understand the reluctance in the past to disclose an amount like that. The intent was to better uphold the important principle of confidentiality in terms of the advice we provide to the government.
In my view, which is consistent with Mr. Marsland's, we are able to disclose the amount without putting that other aspect of our activities at risk. That's why we made the decision to share it with you, in the spirit of transparency.
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas - 12:38
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques)
2021-03-09 12:40
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That's fine.
Of course, I expect your department to be transparent from the start. As you know, the committee is accountable. In order to fulfill its role, we have to ask questions.
I understand that you were not there before, but officials still answered questions on behalf of the department. They must still be around today, unless you can tell me that they were fired for not being transparent in their answers.
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Michael Sabia
2021-03-09 12:41
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That's certainly not the case at all.
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Kelly Block - 12:41
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Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable)
2021-03-09 12:41
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So let's talk about that difference, Mr. Sabia.
Mr. Deputy Minister, earlier, I was very surprised to hear you say that you could not defend the past actions or decisions of certain people, since you were not in office. As parliamentarians, we have a job to do. Personally, I am in the process of learning to work with the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. Various departments are accountable to our committee. Our committee is the only one where we have to act in a non-partisan way in order to obtain answers.
I totally agree with my colleague from the Bloc Québécois that it is unacceptable that we asked the Department of Finance three times to provide us with one figure and that we did not receive an answer.
Mr. Marsland, since you were there from the beginning, could you tell us what happened? Why couldn't we get that number at the time?
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I think our response to the committee, Madam Chair, was that there was no public figure available—and that was correct. There was no public figure available.
As Mr. Sabia mentioned, we do many estimates of many aspects of the tax system, and we do these in the context of providing confidential advice to the government.
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Luc Berthold - 12:43
Michael Sabia - 12:53
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques)
2021-03-09 12:55
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You just said that improvements have been made. Let me emphasize that; I appreciate the fact that you have provided us with that figure. However, are you telling us that some practices clearly should have been changed in the past? Let's call it what it is. There was a lack of transparency on the part of the department on certain issues in the past.
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2021-03-09 12:55
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No, not at all. I did not say that.
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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques)
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Okay.
How do you explain two answers—
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No, Mr. Blanchette-Joncas, I never said that.
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