Calgary Photos from Ottawa and Calgary Remembrance Day ceremony at Royal Canadian Legion: Jubilee Branch 286. :_________________________ MIGRATION. DO THISMIGRATION. YOU SUPPORT Sunset Ceremony at the Field Postal Code Postal of Crosses on November 10th. ☐ Retired ☐ Business Owner Owner Business ☐ ☐ Retired ☐ Youth/Student Check allthatCheckapply): ( Met constituents David Nagy and Aparna Krishna, who represented the Association of Consulting Engineering :_________________________________________________ Companies about the need to get energy infrastructure projects approved and built. Unsure Email Roy & Paige Greenwood met with me ☐ Unemployed __ __ about the Disability Tax Credit. OURSELF AS A www.patkellymp.ca [email protected] 403-282-7980 @PatKellyMP @PatKelly_MP ☐ Senior ☐ Veteran ☐ Senior Jacob McGregor, a volunteer with the Calgary Ability Network, met with me about Dear Constituents, committee during its pre-budgetary consultations I am also pleased to welcome Kate to my office No Bill C-81. held in cities across Canada. During these as the new Case Work Officer. As always, I :_________________________________________________________________ The Fall session saw the House of Commons deal hearings the committee heard from many encourage you to contact our office if you are __ __ with several pieces of government legislation and business, labour, and charitable organizations as experiencing difficulty dealing with a department well as private citizens who wished to provide or agency of the federal government. Our office Private Members’ Bills. Inside this issue of ? :_______________________ :_______________________ “House to House” you will find details on testimony to the committee prior to the 2019 is here to help make sure that all constituents are :________________________________________________________________________________ Comments ☐ Parent Canadian ☐ Working household multigenerational a ☐ of Part ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ :___________________________________________ :___________________________________________ federal budget. treated fairly and correctly by the federal Bill C-76 (Elections Act amendments), Bill C-316 (organ donation), and an update on the government in accordance with federal law. Yes status of Bill C-69 (pipelines). In Calgary, my assistant Carol retired on January 11th. During Carol’s tenure in my office she I wish you all the best in the year ahead and look WOULD YOU DESCRIBE Y WOULDDESCRIBE YOU Name(s) Address Telephone CANADA SIGNED FOR GLOBAL COMPACT THE UN CANADA DECISION __ __ helped many constituents deal with everything forward to what should be the final Spring I was kept very busy on committee business this nd Coffee time at Rocky Ridge Retirement Residence as part of their fall. The Public Accounts Committee completed from overseas emergency travel documents to Session of the 42 Parliament. problems with employment insurance, pensions, Lifetime Learning series. and tabled nine reports in the House of Commons and has received ten new reports from the the federal payroll system (Phoenix system), the Auditor General which we are now studying. Canada Revenue Agency and many, many more. - Pat Kelly I wish Carol the best in retirement and thank her As an associate member of the Finance for her service to my constituents. Committee, I travelled extensively with the Visited the University of Calgary’s Spy Hill Campus, Invited to speak to students at William D. Pratt School in where we toured the Reporting on the Tax Gap: Bill S-243 January about our parliamentary system. Great questions! A combination of both approaches will allow the Veterinary College and the CRA to come up with a reasonable estimate of Winter 2019 Contents High Density Library. The existence of tax evasion and the underground taxes owing and thus measure the tax gap. Bill economy is well known, but Canada currently S-243 requires the CRA to estimate and report on lacks a reasonable estimate of how much tax Message to Constituents the tax gap and to provide the Parliamentary Left: Phillippines’ Consul revenue goes uncollected as a result. I recently Budget Officer with the information needed to do General Gilberto Asuque sponsored Bill S-243 in the House of Commons to Tax Gap (Bill S-243) so. This will allow Canadians to judge whether or www.patkellymp.ca require the Canada Revenue Agency to measure Production and delivery delays and delivery Production not progress on combatting tax evasion is being Alberta Energy Crisis Below: Japan’s Consul Representatives of the Canadian Alliance of Student and report on the tax gap in order to provide such made. General Shigenobu Associations met with me about issues of importance to an estimate. (Bill C-69) Kobayashi post-secondary students. Canadians also deserve to know whether tax law is The “tax gap” refers to the difference between how Canada Election Act being enforced fairly and fully. Bill S-243 requires much revenue the Canada Revenue Agency the CRA to report on convictions of both overseas (Bill C-76) actually collects in a year and how much it and domestic tax evasions, thus allowing taxpayers estimates that Canadians owe under the income tax to track the success of law enforcement measures. Public Accounts act. The very nature of tax evasion and unreported Private Members’ Bills usually start in the House income means that the CRA does not know exactly Committee (PACP) of Commons, then move to the Senate if passed by how much money is concealed through deceit, but Members of Parliament. Bills can be introduced Auditor General’s Report the CRA can estimate total taxes owed through and passed in the Senate, but they then need a one of two approaches. on CRA’s Compliance sponsor to introduce and guide them through the Activities Do you want Calgary to proceed with an Olympic bid House of Commons. Bill S-243 was introduced in SURVEY RESPONSES SURVEY One approach is the “top-down” approach which If you preferto answer the new survey online, “ please visit websitemy at the Senate by Prince Edward Island Senator Percy looks at measures of the overall economy, such as 33% of responders said “Yes” and 67% said “No” 33% of responders said “Yes” Downe and passed third reading in early Organ Donation (Bill C-316) gross domestic product, and estimates how much December; I immediately moved to sponsor it in resulted in the question being posed later thanresulted intended. should be paid in taxes as a portion of the total Question about the UN the House of Commons. I look forward to debating economy. The second “bottom-up” approach this bill in the months ahead and hope that all Compact for Migration Thank you to those who took the time to respond to the previous Thank to the you previous to those who took the time to respond Commemorative photo taken in the Chamber of the House of Commons prior to the renovations. For estimates how many people do not comply based parties will support it. question: that requires federal tax dollars?” the next many years, West Block will be the temporary location for the House of Commons. on the results of random audits. Alberta Energy Crisis and Bill C-69 in the Senate Scrutinizing Spending at the Public Accounts Committee Organ Donation: Bill C-316 · Building and Implementing the Phoenix Pay Skills and training programs for unemployed oil System; and gas workers can mitigate some of the · Canada’s Fighter Force; damage caused by the lack of pipeline capacity, · Compliance Activities at the Canada Revenue causing the oil price differential which renders Agency; Canadian energy companies unprofitable and · Connectivity in Rural and Remote Areas; has already led to thousands of workers being laid off. However, the energy industry would not Each one of these reports identified need to lay off workers if pipelines are approved accountability gaps in how departments delivered and built. programs, such as not tracking results of employment training programs aimed at The announced measures do not address the indigenous people to determine whether the causes of Alberta’s energy industry crisis: the programs were effective at helping participants lack of pipeline capacity and capital flight due obtain and keep jobs. They also examined largely to regulatory uncertainty caused by a catastrophic failures in project management and tanker ban and introduction of Bill C-69. organization like in the Phoenix pay system for Bill C-69 is still under consideration in the federal civil servants, which still routinely Senate. The bill changes Canada’s The House of Commons Standing Committee on contrast, reports by Officers of Parliament such overpays, underpays, or fails to pay civil servants environmental assessment procedure for projects Public Accounts (PACP) enjoyed a productive as the Auditor General and other 3rd parties are on time. such as natural resource extraction, making the and collegial Fall Session, completing studies on not required to receive the same degree of process more uncertain for proponents. Although a wide range of topics. consideration and response. The report on Canada’s Fighter Force concerning the bill has not become law, energy investors the process to purchase new fighter jets to replace have already shifted capital and jobs to Texas, PACP’s main responsibility is to scrutinize Over the course of the Fall Session the Public