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{
"time": "2013-03-05 09:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Ted Cook (Senior Legislative Chief, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3232840\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In regard to the department's response to the Auditor General's report, it's worth mentioning that there were two recommendations. The first was that the department should use an integrated and consistent process for recording, tracking, and prioritizing all technical issues for possible legislative amendment. The second recommendation was that the Department of Finance should develop and implement a plan to address the current backlog of necessary technical amendments, and it should regularly develop and release technical amendments, including those that arise from comfort letters.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3232841\" data-originallang=\"en\">As I indicated in our appearance last week before the committee, since then we have introduced a new database for tracking legislative amendments. That database has been subject to an internal audit at the Department of Finance and has been found to be fully functioning. With respect to developing and releasing new packages of technical amendments, additional packages have been prepared for ministerial consideration and in fact were released in November 2010, October 2011, and the most recent was released in December 2012.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3232840\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne la r\u00e9ponse du minist\u00e8re au rapport de la v\u00e9rificatrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, il faut mentionner qu'il y avait deux recommandations. La premi\u00e8re \u00e9tait que le minist\u00e8re utilise un processus int\u00e9gr\u00e9 et coh\u00e9rent pour noter et classifier les probl\u00e8mes techniques qui pourraient mener \u00e0 des modifications l\u00e9gislatives, et en faire le suivi. La deuxi\u00e8me recommandation \u00e9tait que le minist\u00e8re des Finances \u00e9labore et mette en oeuvre un plan pour s'occuper de l'arri\u00e9r\u00e9 actuel des modifications techniques n\u00e9cessaires, et qu'il \u00e9labore et publie r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement ces modifications techniques, y compris celles qui proviennent des lettres de confort. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3232841\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je l'ai indiqu\u00e9 lors de notre comparution la semaine derni\u00e8re devant vous, nous avons depuis cr\u00e9\u00e9 une nouvelle base de donn\u00e9es pour faire le suivi des modifications l\u00e9gislatives. Cette base de donn\u00e9es a fait l'objet d'une v\u00e9rification interne au minist\u00e8re des Finances et elle est compl\u00e8tement op\u00e9rationnelle. En ce qui concerne l'\u00e9laboration et la publication de nouveaux groupes de modifications techniques, des groupes suppl\u00e9mentaires ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9par\u00e9s pour le minist\u00e8re et ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s en novembre 2010, en octobre 2011, et le dernier a \u00e9t\u00e9 rendu public en d\u00e9cembre 2012.</p>"
},
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