Adam Chambers

S-217, An Act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act (reporting on unpaid income tax) moved that Bill, be read the first time. He said: Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to sponsor this bill in this chamber. I would like to congratulate Senator Downe on his third time sending this bill, which deals with increased transparency at the CRA, into this chamber. The names of those who are [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate everyone's patience while we had an ability to have discussions among the parties. I appreciate our officials being back with us again today, and also the thorough suggestions and answers they provided at our last meeting. Mr. Chair, I believe I am in a position to withdraw the subamendment that I had jumped the gun on making and turn the floor, with your [more]

Perhaps I'll just confirm. I think I know the answer. This does not change any substance of the bill, as far as you're aware. Is that correct?

Thank you very much. On the wonderful advice of our officials, I think this is acceptable.

That's very helpful. When you mentioned some of the risks, you mentioned political instability. In your mind, is this the largest risk governments or businesses should be concerned about, or are there other risks that you would also like to highlight for other opportunities?

I'm happy to oblige. Thank you very much to our witnesses. Thank you for the testimony. Mr. Collins, I'd like to start with you for a couple of minutes. You outlined a number of risks in different regions of Africa. Would you be able to—maybe not quantitatively, but qualitatively—qualify the largest opportunities? If you had limited resources as a government in terms of engagement and [more]

Thank you. Staying on the risk topic, if I may, how does Canada as a country, or maybe our companies that might want to engage in Africa, consider the China question and the influence of the CCP growing within the region? Are there specific regions in which you think we should be more careful? Are there certain risk-mitigating actions that a government or a commercial enterprise should take, in [more]

Thank you very much, sir.

I appreciate trying to get some clarification. I thank the chair for his helpful suggestion, as well as my colleague from the Bloc, who I think is trying to figure out a way to make this palatable. From my perspective, I think it's a reasonable suggestion. If that were formally moved as a subamendment, I think that would be welcome.

I guess the final question would be that if a decision is made to redact, would the reasons for that redaction be made available—or could the reasons be made available—to parliamentarians, and what would be the mechanism to make that information available?

I'm not moving a subamendment. This is regarding proposed subsection (3) where it says: Despite subsection (2), the President of the Treasury Board may exclude from the registry any information To me, “exclude” is like “delete”. As Mr. Lemire mentioned, if the word “exclude” was “redact”, that implies to me that information is still in the registry. It is blacked out, but there is, in theory, [more]