From Ann:
I have a contact for The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance.
Letters or emails should be directed to these people regarding FACTA and IGA.
Clerk: Jodi Turner 613 990 4995
Assistant: Louise Martel 613 990 5285
General Information: 613 990 0088 or 1-800-267-7362
Fax: 613 947 2104
email: nffn@sen.parl.gc.ca
Senate Committee on National Finance
The Senate of Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A4
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From Tim:
I think it will be the Senate National Finance Committee instead. Luckily that committee doesn’t look it is moving as fast on Bill C-31 as the Banking Committee so we have some more time. Additionally the chairman of the National Finance Committee is NOT a Conservative so that might be to our advantage.
********You may send your submission in either Official Language to the Clerk of the Committee.
I don’t know if this is still relevant but the Standing Committee for Finance is different than what has been posted here.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeMembership.aspx?Cmte=FINA&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=2
CHAIR
James Rajotte james.rajotte@parl.gc.ca
@JamesRajotte
VICE-CHAIRS
Scott Brison scott.brison@parl.gc.ca
@scottbrison
Nathan Cullen nathan.cullen@parl.gc.ca
@nathancullen
MEMBERS
Mark Adler Mark.Adler@parl.gc.ca
@MarkAdlerMP
Mike Allen mike.allen@parl.gc.ca
@mpmikea
Guy Caron Guy.Caron@parl.gc.ca
@GuyCaronNPD
Gerald Keddy gerald.keddy@parl.gc.ca
@GeraldKeddy
Murray Rankin Murray.Rankin@parl.gc.ca
@MurrayRankin
Andrew Saxton andrew.saxton@parl.gc.ca
@AndrewSaxton1
Dave Van Kesteren dave.vankesteren@parl.gc.ca
@DKesteren
The following are no longer members of the committee:
shelly.glover
cathy.mcleod
randy.hoback
raymond.cote
brian.jean
Thanks for the correction Tricia. Looks like my e-mails have been almost more miss than hit with that committee. I’ll have to fix that with some additional e-mails to those I missed. I just took the list Blaze gave us and ran with it.
Thanks for this, badger. It will be used.
This is a copy of my brief. Copy to my M.P. John Weston
@ KalC
That’s the briefiest brief I ever did see. Very good!
Em, many of us need to be reminded that long briefs are not read. Probably short ones aren’t either. Some clerk simply tabulates the number of pros vs. the cons.
The conservatives are going to pass this bill in any case. We can only prepare for the next election.
The Harper government demonstrates less spine than the Lower House of Russia’s government. Russia’s Lower House is requiring a “TWO-sided treaty”, imposes obligations on BOTH parties, and CONSENT of the accountholder is required before the data can be sent:
” Russia has already prepared a bill that would regulate relations between Russian banks and their US counterparts. The draft was approved by the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank, but in mid-May this year the Lower House sent it back for reworking, saying that passing such legislation required a two-sided treaty between Russia and the US that would specify the obligations of both parties and the responsibility to failing to observe these obligations.
MP Anatoly Aksakov (Fair Russia) told reporters that the bill would be finished before June 1 and it will include both the type and amount of information that Russian banks can send to US authorities and the requirement that the information transfer must be performed only on condition of the client’s consent…. “…..
http://rt.com/politics/160764-russian-banks-fatca-ban/
Don’t forget to sign this petition;
(you can choose for it not to display your name online).
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/335/123/518/
Conservatives: Remove FATCA from the Budget Bill
author: New Democratic Party of Canada
target: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives
Putting this link here for archival purposes – to submissions made to Finance re the portion of omnibus bill C-31 legislation enabling the FATCA IGA in Canada.
http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/41-2/FINA/related-document/6526468